Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.standards,gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
   > It is not yet clear if the 
   > maintainer intentionally did this, or if the changes were introduced via 
   > a compromise of his computer.

   I think it is pretty clear by now. [1][2][3]

There is a bit more to it all than just this -- the maintainer wasn't
responsible (Lasse Collin), the co-maintainer -- JiaT75 (or what you
might call the person) was from the looks.

   [1] https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
   [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
   [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8MCN5uJPg
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