Oh god the xz backdoor seems to have ruined a lot of people’s holiday plans. The timing was definitely deliberate, although I wonder why wasn’t it pushed for Xmas holiday.
@sos Deliberate, or just very, very, veeeeery stupid and irresponsible. Esp. by some person working on a security-sensible topic like databases at Microsoft. With more people looking at the problem since weeks.
@sos It's still unclear (to me) how wide-spread this compromised version is. Best case, many system admins have to answer panic calls with "we don't run unstable Debian" all Easter.
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