I’m not sure why this old toot of mine is gaining attention right now again, but I suspect it has something to do with the xz fiasco. Don’t miss the second post in the thread with the article I wrote as a follow up.

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https://mastodon.online/@jmmv/110635380384812322

Julio Merino (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image TIL. WTH, that's scary.

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‪And indeed the xz research is related. Look at the misc topics under https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27?permalink_comment_id=5005917 , which I think is the source of the traffic I’m seeing.‬
xz-utils backdoor situation (CVE-2024-3094)

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@jmmv and it gives a shoutout to one of your blog posts. 😀
@jmmv yes, absolutely -- I just arrived from that link :)