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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 84 points 7 months ago

it is actually how the exploit was found

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The XZ exploit was found because some dude was investigating performance issues in a system, and noticed an unusual amount of time being spent in SSH processing, IIRC.