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Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] 1 point 2 years ago

If you, as a regular user, get this paranoid about using computers, maybe you should evaluate your priorities.

"Regular user" seems to be a strange counter to all the people I just listed that would be affected here. I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about the people whose privacy and security is extremely important in this context.

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