@hamburgheftig@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agoOpen source maintainers are feeling the squeezewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down13cross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareTimeSquirrellinkfedilink7•1 month agoIt’s also a security risk. Wasn’t there just a recently discovered backdoor in some widely used library that was put there by someone who fooled a burned out/depressed maintainer?
minus-square@SMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month agoYes, XZ the compression library that everyone uses.
It’s also a security risk. Wasn’t there just a recently discovered backdoor in some widely used library that was put there by someone who fooled a burned out/depressed maintainer?
Yes, XZ the compression library that everyone uses.