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Discovering the xz backdoor with Andres Freund [audio]


joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s an incredible story… so great to get into the details with Andres.

Andres Freund joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his discovery of the xz backdoor. It’s all the more shocking because the big story here is how Andres’ penchant for digging into the details is what saved us all from what would have been a pervasive and damaging attack!Our research for this episode: Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar.

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