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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)
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[–] jas0n 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

xz attack was an open source attack and it would be silly to assume that it was unique.

[–] aidan -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with xz

[–] TheGrandNagus 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think you understood their point.

[–] aidan 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What did I miss?

[–] jas0n 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In response to:

Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it.

The xz attack was an intentional backdoor put into a project that was "OPEN and many eyes are on it." Also, it was discovered due to the way it was executing and not because someone found it in the source. The original assumption has been proven wrong.

[–] aidan 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, yep I didn't see that. Though definitely more eyes are on Linux than were on xz