German programmer may have foiled the biggest cyber attack in history

https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

This shows that #hacking is also about #psychology. They were working for years to get #backdoor into #opensource code. They succeeded using kind of #psyops.

It's kinda worrying that it's possible to do that with open source.

#xzutil #ssh