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ting0today at 4:15 PM1 replyview on HN

https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo...

This is the scariest part to me:

> A pull request (https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2) to a go library by a 1Password employee is opened asking to upgrade the library to the vulnerable version


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2OEH8eoCRo0today at 5:23 PM

People are always trying to bump versions because it's (usually) an easy contribution.