Who in the world is Jia Tan?

Published: April 1, 2024, 7:45 p.m.

The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in liblzma (aka XZ) \u2013 a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH. This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let\u2019s dig in!