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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] siriusmart@lemmy.ml 84 points 2 months ago

it is actually how the exploit was found

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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.