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XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." (lcamtuf.substack.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Jennykichu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

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[-] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 3 points 5 months ago

Do you think Jia Tan is alive now to talk about his famous bug?

[-] 0xD@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago

Jia Tan is most definitely not a person, just the publicly facing account of a group of people.

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