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kudos to the Microsoft engineer (Andres Freund) who discovered the backdoor. It's incredible how one bad github actor, lurking deep in the weeds, can sabotage so many Linux distros.
Blow a big vulnerable hole in linux best practices as far as how we audit, a pessimist might say. An optimist could say this is a rare one that got through the cracks.
Personally, I don't know enough to make a judgement, I'm just a reader. Open the graphic in a new tab and make it big then go down the rabbit hole🙂
