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outdated as usual, lets joke about the xz exploit (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by siriusmart@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't get it

[–] siriusmart@lemmy.ml 87 points 7 months ago

it is actually how the exploit was found

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The XZ exploit was found because some dude was investigating performance issues in a system, and noticed an unusual amount of time being spent in SSH processing, IIRC.