How I discovered a 9.8 critical security vulnerability in ZeroMQ with mostly pure luck and my two cents about xz backdoor
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  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
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    9 months ago

    As someone who recently wrote a security bulletin on the xz Utility for my class assignment this was another interesting, much less horrifying but still important read than the xz util’s forum discussion which gave me tech existentialism/Y2K and Guilty Gear vibes.

    Pretty sure steampunk fans might be a bit upset but I REALLY don’t think humanity is ready to jump on the amish bandwagon

    • unless we’re somehow able to discover the Princess Principal equivalent of Cavorite, I think we’ve dodged a couple of bullets