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“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons” (crabby.fyi)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They were not shipped to the client. They were shipped to the build system, executed there after deobfuscation, and they inserted an additional, opaque program file into the build process.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

that much i picked up on, though i didn't make it very clear. I did mention that alternative though.