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Worth a watch. There's also this GitHub where there's reverse engineering going on: https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre We now know
by lenerdenator 3y ago
Worth a watch. There's also this GitHub where there's reverse engineering going on: https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre
We now know the answer to the question of "who would win?"
1) A years-long nation-state-backed hacking effort to infiltrate a software project and compromise most servers in the Western world
or
2) A German's obsession with efficiency and precision in engineering
- optimalsolver 3y ago>nation-state-backed Is that actually known?
- xyst 3y agoFrom what I have read so far: speculative, at best. It’s all based on the sophistication, the level of psychological manipulation, years of effort, multiple actors, and a working theory based on commit timings.
- lenerdenator 3y agoGenerally speaking, with attacks of this sophistication, if it's not a state-backed APT, it's someone who operates with the unofficial backing of a government to give plausible deniability. I suppose it could be a few amateurs who took on a passion project, but... it's unlikely.
- EasyMark 3y agoCould be someone at a company that hacks into stuff and sells it to governments too. They're always looking for backdoors and I assume would do stuff like this.