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by ivolimmen 271 days ago
Maybe my human interaction interfacing software has a glitch but I am having a hard time parsing this content. Do I detect a hint of sarcasm? Please add a '/s' at the end of your future posts to aid my very archaic and vintage brain matter.
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Jia Tan was the alias of the hacker(s) who infiltrated xz to plant a backdoor. He/They were in the project for 2 years I believe, and so had "significant experience" "maintaining" open source software.
Thanks for the info; I read the news but did not remember the name of the person.
"Jia Tan" was the name of the person (or group) who became a maintainer of libxz and sneaked in a vulnerability targeting OpenSSH.
*liblzma
Maybe _my_ software has a glitch but was your comment also sarcastic? Be sure to add an /s next time...
No I had a hard time understanding as I was not aware of the person in question, no sarcasm.
All Internet comments are to be assumed sarcastic until proven otherwise. Bombcar’s law.