testeronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 months agoXZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbannedgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down15cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.world
arrow-up1457arrow-down1external-linkXZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbannedgithub.comtesteronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 9 months agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.world
minus-squarexlash123@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up257·9 months agoCommit 77a294d Update maintainer and author info. The other maintainer suddenly disappeared. Lmao, that’s putting it lightly.
minus-square7eter@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up160·9 months agothe other maintainer now has a special place: Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when this was discovered.
minus-squarerollingflower@lemmy.kde.sociallinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up47·edit-29 months agoRIP Jia Tan
minus-squareintrepid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down28·9 months agoI don’t think they would be in much peace. It was years of their work that was ruined by a person with OCD and valgrind.
minus-squarerollingflower@lemmy.kde.sociallinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up72arrow-down2·9 months agoCan we stop calling a good software dev autistic or stuff?
Commit 77a294d
Lmao, that’s putting it lightly.
the other maintainer now has a special place:
RIP Jia Tan
I don’t think they would be in much peace. It was years of their work that was ruined by a person with OCD and valgrind.
Can we stop calling a good software dev autistic or stuff?