secret backdoor found in open source software (xz situation breakdown)
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Submission statement: Do people here think this is the work of an intelligence agency?
Hard to hide a backdoor into a piece of open source software. It takes a real brainiac to figure that out.
It was so brilliantly pulled off that I suspect it is government level.
Guessing NSA, but some of these kinds of trojans and 0-days are kept silent until needed. Usually when you do an attack with a vector like this, you can do some analysis afterwards and see exactly where the backdoor is.