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> We, particularly those us who work on critical infrastructure or software

We should also be asking ourselves if we are working on critical infrastructure. Lasse Collin probably did not consider liblzma being loaded by sshd when vetting the new maintainer. Did the xz project ever agree to this responsibility?

We should also be asking ourselfs if each dependency of critical infrastructure is worth the risk. sshd linking libsystemd just to write a few bytes into an open fd is absurd. libsystemd pulling in liblzma because hey it also does compressed logging is absurd. Yet this kind of absurd dependency bloat is everywhere.




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