• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    It’s spotted within 5 minutes by some nerd who noticed that the program took an extra ten seconds to load and immediately wanted to know why.

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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      9 months ago

      10s? Pfft, amateur; the xz backdoor caused a ~500ms delay in SSH logins and somebody went “hmm that’s weird”

    • uis@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      It was chinese backdoor. Russian backdoor will make it load in 10 seconds less.