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beanjuiceII
7 months ago
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XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
How is it down the drain? You know he didn't achieve his goals?
dotps1
7 months ago
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Occam's razor says that the perpetrators likely didn't spend years building up trust to hack some early adopters before the releases got more stable.
It would be like spending hours baking bread only to eat it before it goes in the oven.
EasyMark
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yep, maybe it was a false flag to take people's eye off the -other- backdoor lol
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