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XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned

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XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned

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GitHub - tukaani-project/xz: XZ Utils
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    275•1 year ago

    Commit 77a294d

    Update maintainer and author info. The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.

    Lmao, that’s putting it lightly.

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      the other maintainer now has a special place:

      Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when this was discovered.

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        RIP Jia Tan

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          I don’t think they would be in much peace. It was years of their work that was ruined by a person with OCD and valgrind.

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            Can we stop calling a good software dev autistic or stuff?

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      - Backdoors are bad for security.

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        Hmm yes.

        The floor is made out of floor

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        3•1 year ago

        I like how the first point made is that the backdoor violates the Debian Free Software Guidelines, as if that’s the main problem

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