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		glandium on April 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis The large performance regression was a feature of the string obfuscation.

grumpyprole on April 13, 2024 [–]

Interesting! So perhaps not really effective obfuscation after all!

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