On: Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained

[minimax]

> if this was found by accident, how many things still remain undiscovered.

This, to me, is the most important question. There is no way Andres Freund just happened to find the _only_ backdoored popular open source project out there. There must be like a dozen of these things in the wild?

[whywhywhywhy → minimax]

It wasn’t found accidentally, he felt it. There’s a difference.

Next one will definitely be less careless with adding time to it’s execution.

[roflmaostc → minimax]

Maybe.

But maybe there is not many (critical) ones out there. Otherwise, I believe we would encounter more often those kind of situations.

[mistrial9 → minimax]

"(B)urn (A)ll (S)atanic (H)elper-scripts" ? get the kindling?

[paulmd → mistrial9]

thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind

[supersuryan → paulmd]

Human minds shine bright, but machines lend their light

[slater → supersuryan]

Human minds shine bright, and machines steal their light