XZ Hack - "If this timeline is correct, it’s not the modus operandi of a hobbyist. [...] It wouldn’t be surprising if it was paid for by a state actor."
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Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.
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What if the unexpected SSH latency hadn’t been introduced, this backdoor would live?
I wonder how many OSS projects include backdoors that doesn't appear in performance checks
I'm confused by this sentence. It uses future tense in the first clause and then conditional in the second. Are you trying to express something that could've taken place in the past? Then you should be using "had been". See conditional sentences.
Or are you trying to express something else?
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Thanks, what you wrote is what I meant: