The XZ Linux Backdoor Is Incredibly BAD!! #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/OHAyf0qwdCs
The XZ Linux Backdoor Is Incredibly BAD!!
Of all the times for a massive vulnerability to come out did it have to be over the Easter Weekend, I just wanted to take a break and here we are talking abo...YouTube
Random Tux User :fedora:
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •I'm honestly surprised at how many distributions build off a tarball instead of the actual source code, especially given how one of the main benefits of using distro repos is that the distro supposedly audits the code.
I mean I guess they probably do review the code itself but what's the point if they don't build off the code they're reviewing and instead use a tarball someone else built
Stefan Mayrhofer
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Rhababerbarbar
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •I think "fixing their own backdoors" is the way how we get more development on Linux Software!
Change my mind.
Alfabravo :manjaro:
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Brodie Robertson
in reply to Alfabravo :manjaro: • • •Alfabravo :manjaro:
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Cool, I'll improve in a language that is not my native tongue. Appreciate the suggestion, honestly, no sarcasm involved.
But of course that's the main point in my message, right?
Alfabravo :manjaro:
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •Long version: Look, I find you knowledgable and I enjoy reading you most of the time. Cool.
Also, I lived through the whole SCO thing and I KNOW how the term came to be something.
So, if you'd rather have me not using FUD outside of a very specific context, ok! But I've been reading about this xz thing because my work needs me to, and I find it unnecessary to have a board saying UPDATE NOW when most distros are not using the backdoored library other than rolling releases.
NiceMicro
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •