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Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor (tukaani.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They haven't particularly made a comment on the situation so much as acknowledged it's happening. They seem to be going with the story that they had nothing to do with it and this is news to them. Hope to hear more from them soon so we can find out more about the situation, how and why this happened, etc.

(The sceptical tone isn't because of disbelief of Collin, it's because we don't know enough about the situation to be able to say Collin is or isn't telling the truth here.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Mate, we are discussing on two different threads. Chill out. Maybe I didnt get your point so feel free to elaborate or leave it.

I think it would be really good if all of us on the internet agreed to a rule, which is that if you mischaracterize someone or misread them, it's not that weird for them to want you to not do that. So I don't think it's fair to response to a comment correctly noting they are being mischaractized by going out of your way to try and make it about their emotions/mental state.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Whatever your reason for injecting yourself into this conversation is, youre out of line.