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.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    243·
    1 year ago

    If you think people are going to be trustworthy just because they are getting paid you are naive.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 year ago

        I guess you are using trust in a different way here. Trust in competency can vary with both volunteer and paid workers, everyone makes mistakes though. Trust that someone doesn’t do something deliberately malicious is a different matter though.