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Real examples here? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 months ago by megaman@discuss.tchncs.de to c/programming@programming.dev
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Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if "runk" was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

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[–] DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I heard about that last one on a podcast and it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post. Genuinely interesting story (if you're into that sort of thing). The pod was saying how it's both a flaw of open source that it could happen that way and an advantage because it was discoverable due to the fact that the code is open source.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which podcast? Sounds like something I'd be interested in listening to

[–] EvenOdds@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Also replied to another comment, sounds like this one here: https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/04/01/xz-bonus-spectacular-episode/

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a link to the podcast?

[–] EvenOdds@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like the open source security podcast. Specifically this episode: https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/04/01/xz-bonus-spectacular-episode/

Kurt and Josh are great, one of my favourites.