<div dir="ltr">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".<div><br></div><div>If you don't want to spend the time to watch the video, here's a just the facts read - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor</a></div><div><br></div><div>-David</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 3:33 PM Bernie Hoefer <<a href="mailto:LUG-Member@themoreiknow.info">LUG-Member@themoreiknow.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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On 2026-02-27 23:02 UTC-05:00, David Spoelstra wrote:<br>
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> Without even looking at the video I'm betting this is about the .xz<br>
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Winner, winner -- chicken dinner!  :-)<br>
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