Since I went down the rabbit hole to find out about 'xz utils' I know who did it and how. The details of that I did not post. Since then I found a New York Times article about the backdoor. (By way of Surly's newsletter)
The NYT article is a distortion. The 'Thankless Guy from Nebraska' had in real life been helped by the individual who wrote the backdoor. I don't want to hunt for the names just to prove a point. The doer of the dirty deeds has a Chinese name.
The NYT article totally butchered the facts and have the 'Microsoft Engineer' who found the exploit as the 'Thankless Guy from Nebraska' which is a bogus buggery of actual facts. The 'Thankless Guy from Nebraska' is a victim who was used by the author of the backdoor.
And the real guy is not actually in Nebraska. The cartoon has been around for years. For all we know the Chinese perpetrator could have been an American alphabet agency.
And the NYT will be where the cover story will appear.
- Censorship News
Started by K-Dog Apr 06, 2024, 12:51 AM
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