Rob Landley on Nostr: Regarding the xz backdoor situation, here's what I wrote about in 2020 about ...

Regarding the xz backdoor situation, here's what I wrote about in 2020 about coutering ken thompson's trusting trust attack by binary auditing from a small reproducible base:

http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2020-July/011898.html

This is not a one-time thing. We need auditable plumbing that can be cleaned regularly, like maid service. Binary re-auditing the common OS base from scratch should be a standard freshman project, and that base should be simple enough to allow that.

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