Jim Winstead on Nostr: Another thing that makes me laugh about the #xz situation is I was just some kid in ...
Another thing that makes me laugh about the #xz situation is I was just some kid in college who bugged Linus to let me release the “root” disk that almost everyone used to install Linux before distributions.
Should have played the long game, pulled a Ken Thompson, and buried a self-replicating back door in that.
There’s some sort of graybeard-denial-of-service attack here where people who have long been involved in open source projects could just *claim* to have done something like that and it puts a lot of the open source supply chain in question.
Should have played the long game, pulled a Ken Thompson, and buried a self-replicating back door in that.
There’s some sort of graybeard-denial-of-service attack here where people who have long been involved in open source projects could just *claim* to have done something like that and it puts a lot of the open source supply chain in question.