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by bcrypt 3949 days ago
That's correct. I did not discover vulnerabilities in existing libraries or add backdoors to any of them. :)

The attack scenario described in the post is (1) attacker writes some plausible-looking patches to an existing library like jQuery, (2) attacker convinces library maintainer to merge the patches, (3) someone builds the library with a buggy minifier, which creates the actual backdoor.

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It's interesting all the same, It's kind of why exploits in very popular things like wordpress become problematic for so many for so long.