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XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor." (lcamtuf.substack.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Boostrapping a full distribution from a 357-byte seed file is possible in GUIX:

https://lemmy.ml/post/8046326

If that seed is compromised, then the whole software stack just won't build.

It's an answer to the "Trusting Trust" problem outlined by Ken Thompson in 1984.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reading a bit into this https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html The irony!

The only requirement is to have GNU tar and Xz.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Hahaha! Oh dear

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

That's cool. Thank you.