Re: xz backdoor

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 12:08 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 07:00:37PM +0100, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > wow: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/
> >
> > I think at this point we clearly cannot trust xz upstream anymore and should
> > probably fork the project.
>
> I kind of agree here, though it saddens me to say it.  Any commit or
> release by "Jia Tan" or "Hans Jansen" [1] is suspect until proven
> otherwise, and those go back 2 or more years.
>
> Rich.
>
> [1] Putting quotes here because those are almost certainly not real
> peoples' names.

That github user has also committed to libarchive, although not since
November 2021.
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Jerry James
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