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Currently working on The Next Big Thing™️ in the Linux community.
Free tech tip: turn off auto updates on your servers so that you always run proven and stable software :3c
I have to appreciate linux and the people who actually make changes in open source code.
Oh god, round two already?
What?
Jia Tan was the username used by a group
probably a state intelligence agency
on GitHub to try to attack the xz open source package. The effort aimed at trying to take over the project, and lasted for years. They managed to get a compromised package briefly into the unstable versions of some major Linux distros that created a backdoor in the openssh daemon and came close to being widely deployed across Linux servers, which would have been a very severe compromise of a huge range of systems. The account vanished when the compromise was discovered.
The user here is, as a joke, using the same name.
EDIT:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
When they said they were "working on the next big thing in linux", the tip and the username they have, i thought:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
Oh, I thought you were calling me out for spam because I posted yesterday or two days ago.
Uuhhhh… 👀 yeah… two