Tom Forsyth on Nostr: If the story of the xz backdoor interests you, you should read the old-school version ...
If the story of the xz backdoor interests you, you should read the old-school version - the book The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll (yes, the Klein bottle guy) telling the tale of his 1980s hunt for hackers.
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