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It was mentioned in the recent Oxide and Friends podcast with the guy who, discovered the backdoor. Maybe there is a link there somewhere.

• Denvercoder9 3y ago
  I'm not going to listen to a 1.5 hour podcast to find the exact quote, but someone must've misspoke or misunderstood. I did some searching in the meantime, but there's no evidence at all of "Jia Tan" interacting with the systemd developers. They pressured distributions to update xz-utils, but not systemd upstream.
  • panick21_ 3y ago
    That may be true, but that wasn't the claim. The claim was changes in upstream systemd would limit the timeline for them. Not that they had interaction with each other. The podcast is interesting either way.
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    • throwaway7356 3y ago
      The claim here was this: > "Jia Tan" was pushing hard to get systemd updated to use the new xz Which is different from your claim "changes in upstream systemd would limit the timeline for them"
  • cratermoon 3y ago
    I can't edit my original comment, so I added the following correction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40031620 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40031620 Apologies for any misunderstanding.
• blueflow 3y ago
  You could link the systemd issue.