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by yuumei 780 days ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted, quote from the video "It's actually systemd's fault":

https://youtu.be/Q6ovtLdSbEA?feature=shared&t=1491

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The real culprit is actually ifunc feature in the dynamic loader / glibc
The real culprit is the backdoor that got injected into an open source project.
Because it’s just another attempt by people who have emotional issues around systemd to derail a technical thread while adding nothing new or insightful. The people who actually work on these projects have been making efforts to reduce dependency depth and otherwise protect against a general class of attack which could have been used to target many other things, both users of liblzma and more broadly other popular projects with limited resources.