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Yes, I think if a project has backdoors and its old maintainers are unable to review them, I am more critical than with normal projects. As said, compression is
by jnxx 3y ago
Yes, I think if a project has backdoors and its old maintainers are unable to review them, I am more critical than with normal projects. As said, compression is used everywhere and in embedded systems, it touches a lot of critical stuff. And the project went straight for that since the beginning.
And this is in part because I can not even tell for sure that he even exists. If I had met him a few times in a bar, I would be more inclined to believe he is not involved.
- saagarjha 3y ago> As said, compression is used everywhere and in embedded systems, it touches a lot of critical stuff. And the project went straight for that since the beginning. Uh, because it's a compression library?
- ljahier 3y agoFrom the project readme: > XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus 21 command-line tools. https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=README;h=ac812ff150ca12bece1c266c5f4efe8e860be752;hb=HEAD https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=README;h=ac812ff1...
- UncleEntity 3y agoI'm inclined to believe that whatever state actor was involved sent a memo to their sockpuppets to do whatever they can to deflect blame away. See what I did there?