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brenoguimon Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an OpenBSD developer

For those using editors with mouse, it's very easy to add a character anywhere. Doesn't matter the place.

brenoguimon Excellent succinct breakdown of the xz mess, from an OpenBSD developer

> It does not plausibly pass for a typo because no typical editing glitch will leave a '.' character there.

I would certainly attribute that to a typo if I was reviewing the code.

brenoguimon Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained

If you add the dot to Rust it doesnt break?

brenoguimon Xz Backdoor and Autotools Insanity

> In my opinion Lasse Collin should have held to his reigns and let the project stagnate if he didn’t have the time to properly review changes. That’s better than hastily accepting contributors.

Hastily? Jia Tan was helping for more than one year...