The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Who in the world is Jia Tan? (News)
Mon, 01 Apr 2024
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The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in _liblzma_ (aka _XZ_) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH. This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let's dig in!
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