Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate
lcamtuf.substack.com
Diving into some of the dynamics and the interpretations of the brazen ploy to subvert the liblzma compression library.

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.

  • speaker_hat@lemmy.one
    151·
    9 months ago

    What if the unexpected SSH latency hadn’t been introduced, this backdoor would live?

    I wonder how many OSS projects include backdoors that doesn’t appear in performance checks

    • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      24·
      9 months ago

      What if the unexpected SSH latency won’t be introduced, this backdoor would live?

      I’m confused by this sentence. It uses future tense in the first clause and then conditional in the second. Are you trying to express something that could’ve taken place in the past? Then you should be using “had been”. See conditional sentences.

      What if the unexpected SSH latency hadn’t been introduced, this backdoor would live?

      Or are you trying to express something else?

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      • speaker_hat@lemmy.one
        2·
        9 months ago

        Thanks, what you wrote is what I meant:

        What if the unexpected SSH latency hadn’t been introduced, this backdoor would live?