Who in the world is Jia Tan? (News)

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. \n\nThis 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's dig in!