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		exitzer0 on March 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated... I work for a large closed-source software company and I can tell you with 100% that it is full of domestic and foreign agents. Being open source means that more eyes can and will look at something. That only increases the chance of malicious actions being found out ... just like this supply-chain attack.

naruhodo on March 31, 2024 [–]

Reminds me of the scene in Fight Club where the unreliable narrator is discussing car defects to a fellow airline passenger.

Quoting from flawed memory:

Passenger: Which company?

Narrator: A large one.

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