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[-] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 120 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think a lot of memes are missing the main point of how it was caught, the exploit caused a spike in CPU usage for a network call. That made no sense to the ~~guy~~ Messiah who found/reported it. FOSS software's strength is the number of critical eyes looking over each line of code you put out!

[-] alexdeathway@programming.dev 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

My Firefox package updates are usually slow, limiting downloads to <500kb. So, whenever the download speed used to drop, I knew Firefox released an update.

So when the XZ articles started popping up, the first thing I did was verify all sources.

https://programming.dev/post/12370824

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 20 points 7 months ago

It would be more of a fair trade if bad actors at least needed to make sure their code was way better than most

[-] justcoding_de@programming.dev 16 points 7 months ago

Me, after the latest iOS update slows my aging iPad by another 20%: 🤷‍♂️

[-] LinearArray@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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