The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

[David Spoelstra]

LOL, yeah, that was a bad one. It would have given hackers a back door into
literally every linux distro. The general agreement is that it "would’ve
dwarfed the SolarWinds backdoor".

If you don't want to spend the time to watch the video, here's a just the
facts read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

-David

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 3:33 PM Bernie Hoefer <LUG-Member at themoreiknow.info>
wrote:

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> > Without even looking at the video I'm betting this is about the .xz
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> Winner, winner -- chicken dinner!  :-)
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