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Damn, it is actually scary that they managed to pull this off. The backdoor came from the second-largest contributor to xz too, not some random drive-by.

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It would be nice if we could press formal charges

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Assuming that it’s just that person, that it’s their actual name and that they’re in the US…

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there will be federal investigation just speculation if the culprit is a foreign actor

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Do you have a source for this?

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They’ve been contributing to xz for two years, and commited various “test” binary files.

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It’s looking more like a long game to compromise an upstream.

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Either that or the attacker was very good at choosing their puppet…

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Time to audit all their contributions although it looks like they mostly contribute to xz. I guess we’ll have to wait for comments from the rest of the team or if the whole org needs to be considered comprimised.

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