Red Hatter rwmj on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866275:
> the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of it's "great new features". We even worked with him to fix the valgrind issue (which it turns out now was caused by the backdoor […]
> He has been part of the xz project for 2 years, adding all sorts of binary test files
> with this level of sophistication I would be suspicious of even older versions of xz
scy /
npub15p…khvce
2024-03-29 18:24:57
in reply to nevent1q…y0at
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npub15pc5vt5kqgr60g389gl4n5zzuktz8wezz76klym9ew3puy3p8clqckhvcePublished at
2024-03-29 18:24:57Event JSON
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