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TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

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[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] oo1@kbin.social 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If I pray to you will I be able to get my printer to work?

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

There are some things that not even a god has the power to do.

[–] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Made out of Empty cups