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| ▲ | yupyupyups 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Jia Tan was the alias of the hacker(s) who infiltrated xz to plant a backdoor. He/They were in the project for 2 years I believe, and so had "significant experience" "maintaining" open source software. |
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| ▲ | ivolimmen 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for the info; I read the news but did not remember the name of the person. |
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| ▲ | tsimionescu 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Jia Tan" was the name of the person (or group) who became a maintainer of libxz and sneaked in a vulnerability targeting OpenSSH. |
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| ▲ | rjh29 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Maybe _my_ software has a glitch but was your comment also sarcastic? Be sure to add an /s next time... |
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| ▲ | ivolimmen 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | | No I had a hard time understanding as I was not aware of the person in question, no sarcasm. | |
| ▲ | bombcar 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | All Internet comments are to be assumed sarcastic until proven otherwise. Bombcar’s law. |
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