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!

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

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

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

Me irl