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I wrote 'was possible' and 'enabled', not 'created'. By paying more attention to what others write you'll avoid superficial dismissals that prevent you from imp
by armitron 3y ago
I wrote 'was possible' and 'enabled', not 'created'. By paying more attention to what others write you'll avoid superficial dismissals that prevent you from improving your understanding of complex issues.
The creation of this backdoor did not take place in a vacuum. Can you imagine the same person trying to introduce build changes and binary test cases into openssh? This backdoor was crafted in this particular way _specifically_ to exploit the fact that sshd in distributions such as Debian is being indirectly linked with lzma.