• @7eter@feddit.de
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    1719 months ago

    the other maintainer now has a special place:

    Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when this was discovered.

      • @intrepid@lemmy.ca
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        -259 months ago

        I don’t think they would be in much peace. It was years of their work that was ruined by a person with OCD and valgrind.

        • @rollingflower
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          739 months ago

          Can we stop calling a good software dev autistic or stuff?