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outdated as usual, lets joke about the xz exploit (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They actually did try to optimize it a bit in v5.6.1, but the person that found the exploit was on the older unoptimized version v5.6.0.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago

it is actually how the exploit was found

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The XZ exploit was found because some dude was investigating performance issues in a system, and noticed an unusual amount of time being spent in SSH processing, IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

any inside joke about colour inverted image?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

It's like the evil [character] meme where an image of them was inverted, along with a caption of something that's the opposite of what they'd say. So, here dystopia is basically depicted as "evil utopia"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I think it's just the utopia image with colors inverted, which is a visual gag that I'm loving

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Can we joke about log4shell? Maybe heartbleed?