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Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor


The Backdoor That Almost Broke the Internet, and the Invisible Labor Beneath It Welcome On March 29, 2024, a Microsoft engineer running a routine benchmark at home noticed that logging into a test machine was taking about half a second longer than it should. Almost anyone would have written it off as noise.

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