> ma...@mohawksoft.com said on Fri, 31 May 2024 09:37:38 -0400
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>>The xz thing is totally different. That was a masterful bit of
>>espionage. It was two years in the making, and if we don't think this
>>is elsewhere as well, unrelated to systemd, then I'm sure we are
>>kidding ourselves.
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> H
> And this is all entirely irrelevant to the XZ supply chain attack,
> because the backdoor isn't in the source code. It's in the test
> harness. If you used 'git clone' then you would never see it because
> the payload was excluded by the .gitignore file. You had to use the
> tarball, and you ha
On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 08:41:31 -0400
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> Like I said, I understand what systemd is intended to do and it is not
> without merit, but it is the most "Windows" of all the code in unux.
Correction: it's the most Macintosh. systemd started life as a knock-off
of Apple's launchd
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 08:41:31 -0400
> ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>
>> Like I said, I understand what systemd is intended to do and it is not
>> without merit, but it is the most "Windows" of all the code in unux.
>
> Correction: it's the most Macintosh. systemd started life as a knock-off
> of App
On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 15:58:57 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
>> >Numbers of lines of code does not correlate with attack surface.
> That's exactly what I said, except I used the word correlate.
You said there is a correlation even if it's not 1:1.
I said that no such correlation exists. It's a myth.
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Rich Pieri said on Mon, 3 Jun 2024 17:46:23 -0400
>On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 15:58:57 -0400
>Steve Litt wrote:
>
>>> >Numbers of lines of code does not correlate with attack surface.
>>> >
>> That's exactly what I said, except I used the word correlate.
>
>You said there is a correlation even if it's
