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  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Currently working on The Next Big Thing™️ in the Linux community.

    Free tech tip: turn off auto updates on your servers so that you always run proven and stable software :3c

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          5 hours ago

          Jia Tan was the username used by a group — probably a state intelligence agency — on GitHub to try to attack the xz open source package. The effort aimed at trying to take over the project, and lasted for years. They managed to get a compromised package briefly into the unstable versions of some major Linux distros that created a backdoor in the openssh daemon and came close to being widely deployed across Linux servers, which would have been a very severe compromise of a huge range of systems. The account vanished when the compromise was discovered.

          The user here is, as a joke, using the same name.

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

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          When they said they were “working on the next big thing in linux”, the tip and the username they have, i thought:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

          In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux build of the xz utility within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name “Jia Tan”.