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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

xz attack was an open source attack and it would be silly to assume that it was unique.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with xz

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think you understood their point.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What did I miss?

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In response to:

Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it.

The xz attack was an intentional backdoor put into a project that was "OPEN and many eyes are on it." Also, it was discovered due to the way it was executing and not because someone found it in the source. The original assumption has been proven wrong.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, yep I didn't see that. Though definitely more eyes are on Linux than were on xz