Peter Cohen on Nostr: There seems to be a lot of tut-tutting over this business about the xz Utils ...
There seems to be a lot of tut-tutting over this business about the xz Utils backdoor.
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this exactly how it's supposed to work?
By that, I mean contributors to open source projects (in this case, Andres Freund specifically) identifying and alerting the community to problems.
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