Eli5: What is the Linux xz backdoor?

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…and how/why it works.

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Team A sells door’s lock

Team B sells components to Team A so that they can build their locks

Guy C get incorporated in Team B

Guy C prove he can do very good things, and get promoted

Guy C add some strange and hard thing to understand in the component’s building-testing stage, but people trust it, because not that much people work in Team B

Guy D early tester of the first door’s lock released by Team A incorporating the latest components of Team B, find out the door don’t work as good as the older versions, and notify some people around the world

People around the world investigate and notice that the new doors have now a “master key”. Presumably that Guy C has a key that can open all the doors.

If it was not cached early, he could have a key that opened around 60% of the doors in the world.

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