I found this Veratasium documentary on the xz Jia Tan backdoor adventure quite good and surprisingly detailed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

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@bagder I actually spent some time talking the writers of that video through the technical details of the backdoor, since they came across a lecture I gave about it just after it was discovered (if anyone wants more depth / less polish: https://youtu.be/Q6ovtLdSbEA).

I think their video is definitely a bit dramatic and geared towards a less technical (or at least less cyber-focused) audience, but was impressed with how much they cared about getting the minutiae right.

Realistically, most of their viewers won’t care about ifunc or dynamic linker audit hooks, but it does keep things interesting for the cyber folks watching.

Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor - Columbia Engineering, Advanced Systems Programming Guest Lecture

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@FarmerDenzel @bagder several of their videos have quite some mathematical formulas in them. So I think their audience is not the less technical audience.