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How the xz backdoor highlights a major flaw in Nix | Shade's Blog (shadeyg56.vercel.app)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@starman @GarlicToast true but I don't think you can use nix and not know about the xz exploit within minutes of it being found out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have an RSS feed of CVEs impacting Nixos?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I believe the point they were making is that if you are techy enough to use nix, they are likely the type to keep up to date with news like this.