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[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Gonna take a bit. The dudes been doing the releases for over a year, everything they touched is suspect now even if nothing earlier is known. Also some other associated accounts have been doing shady stuff too.

And that’s just one project that had a burnt out maintainer who welcomed some help from this guy. There are probably others. The hobby project becoming a core piece is a big issue.

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it looks like that little Jenga block from the xkcd meme was XZ and a bunch of infrastructure is gonna have issues because of it.

[-] brunacho@scribe.disroot.org 10 points 7 months ago

Gonna take a bit. The dudes been doing the releases for over a year, everything they touched is suspect now even if nothing earlier is known. Also some other associated accounts have been doing shady stuff too.

gonna take even a bit more now. Github closed the account and project making it really difficult to see their commits and merges and analyze them.

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