The recently discovered XZ backdoor

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Saw some twitter posts about it and seems like an interesting story, but all the discussion I’ve seen assumes some base technical understanding. I’m unfamiliar with Linux and even concepts like what a backdoor is I can at best guess a surface level meaning.

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Just adding to what others here have answered: unless you use a bleeding edge or pre-release version of a Linux distribution (Gentoo, Fedora 41 come to mind) this backdoored version hasn’t landed on your computer yet.

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