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There are two types of backdoors, the ones that were fixed and the ones we don’t know about.
don’t forget the ones we got paid for very well and the ones we introduced to not go to prison
The only reason why xz got exposed was because someone noticed SSH was a bit slower and decided to take it to their own hands to investigate. It’s possible this backdoor would go unnoticed for far longer if the attacker didn’t make this slight oversight.
So it might be that there have been other, successful attacks before. It’s just that this one is the one that got exposed.
Slower as in 500ms slower iirc.
Linux users when bloat
And the ones you leave for yourself to check during development and forgotten to close before release.
Shhh we don’t talk about these !
This is why you should secure your own bureaucracy-bypassing backdoor with a long ass key (bonus point if you use pki instead of a simple static key).
Jim Morrison was truly a developer born into the wrong age.
I feel compelled to point out that “back door man” was already a common expression in blues lyrics.
