XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned
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Commit 77a294d
Update maintainer and author info. The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.
Lmao, that's putting it lightly.
Hmm yes.
The floor is made out of floor
I like how the first point made is that the backdoor violates the Debian Free Software Guidelines, as if that's the main problem
I wonder if he has a donation page. We need to get him some money.
I agree we should support him, but you know who should be more concerned with giving him and other open source maintainers money? The billion dollar corporations that rely on these critical projects and use them absolutely for free. Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google, Siemens, Motorola, God knows how many more.
I wrote to ask him but I never heard back. To be fair he's probably quite stressed at the moment.
Can someone provide a summary on what this means? I thought there were malicious exploits in this. Why is it back up and the perpetrator unbanned?
Lasse Collin is not the perpetrator, that would be "Jia Tan".
Lasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer.
"Jia Tan" was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned.
Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor.
XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)
Exploits were removed. Maintainer who committed them still banned. xz is a critical piece of software.
There's a Wikipedia article regarding this incident. Have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
The second maintainer was most likely the culprit.
This sounds just like something Jia Tan might say...
