Technologist vs spy: the xz backdoor debate
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Well — we just witnessed one of the most daring infosec capers of my career. Here’s what we know so far: some time ago, an unknown party evidently noticed that liblzma (aka xz) — a relatively obscure open-source compression library — was a dependency of

Thought this was a good read exploring some how the “how and why” including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

  • 0xD@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    What is the trail of crumbs? Just some random email accounts?

    This was in a big part a social engineering attack, so you can’t really avoid contact.