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		polio on March 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated... This could've happened to anybody, frankly. The attacker was advanced and persistent. I cannot help but feel sympathetic for the original maintainer here.

consumer451 on March 30, 2024 [–]

From TFA's profile:

https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3ko...

This is a profound realization, isn't it? How much more paranoid should/will maintainers be going forward?

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