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outdated as usual, lets joke about the xz exploit (lemmy.ml)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 months ago

it is actually how the exploit was found

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The XZ exploit was found because some dude was investigating performance issues in a system, and noticed an unusual amount of time being spent in SSH processing, IIRC.