[FRIAM] move fast, break things

[Marcus Daniels]

And how many similar exploits are out there, sponsored by GCHQ, NSA, etc.

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What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/

> almost immediately, a never-before-seen participant named Jigar Kumar joined the discussion and argued that Lasse Collin, the longtime maintainer of xz Utils, hadn’t been updating the software often or fast enough.

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