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by ui2RjUen875bfFA 806 days ago
You might read https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

"However, building from source wouldn’t have protected you against this specific backdoor." Depends on how exactly you build from source. A generic build was not the target. Andres Freund showed that the attack was targeted against a specific type of build system.