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minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down11·1 day agoXZ Utils made it past all those checks with malicious code from a human. If they’d been more careful with their tarball commits it probably would have made it into the final and commercial distros. It made into Homebrew for instance.
minus-squareauzy1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·1 day agoCorrect me if I’m wrong, but that’s not the kernel…
minus-squareJakeroxs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 day agoYou are correct, also has nothing to do with AI, just malicious actors.
minus-squareauzy1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 day agoYep. And the kernel did actually have a backdoor attempt at some point. And it was noticed too https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/10/Linux-Backdoor/
XZ Utils made it past all those checks with malicious code from a human.
If they’d been more careful with their tarball commits it probably would have made it into the final and commercial distros.
It made into Homebrew for instance.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s not the kernel…
You are correct, also has nothing to do with AI, just malicious actors.
Yep. And the kernel did actually have a backdoor attempt at some point. And it was noticed too https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/10/Linux-Backdoor/