Mastodawn

Kit Bashir Mar 30, 2024

So if I’m reading this¹ correctly a three year deep-cover operation to backdoor the entire planetary infosphere was blown because one person noticed that their tests suddenly ran a fraction of a second slower?

This is some “do you remember where you were back in 2024 when you first heard about…” level shit.

¹ https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

Everything I know about the XZ backdoor

Please note: This is being updated in real-time. The intent is to make sense of lots of simultaneous discoveries

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Steve's Place

@Unixbigot I found malicious code not by going through every line of microcode, which I tried doing, but by setting up an ICE & noticing something odd flash by on the screen. It was the malicious code breaking the pattern of activity. Sometimes you just get lucky. Everything this clown ever submitted needs reviewing.