XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   On 18/04/2024 13.12, Newyana2 wrote:   
   > On 4/18/2024 2:31 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:   
   >   
   >> This always been a thing of hard core closed source supporters, to   
   >> discredit the competition without mentioning about real threats to   
   >> their favorite operating system   
   >   
   >      That seems like a sound strategy, representative of a long   
   > and hallowed Linux tradition: Fix a Linux bug by blurting out   
   > that Windows is worse. :)   
      
   Then lets look hastily at the XZ "backdoor", it depends on two other   
   opensource projects, openssh (the application they wanted to affect,   
   this is the same source code that microsoft uses in ms-windows), the   
   injection was utilized by systemd (only system with the right version of   
   systemd would be fully affected, so a subset of all Linux   
   distributions), of course the machine has to have a running sshd and   
   started by the systemd.   
      
   I would bet they would also try to get the whole thing to  work without   
   the need of systemd, as this way you would get even more systems that   
   you could get access to, among those you would see bsd distros, macos   
   and of course ms-windows, so this is a possible OS-independent   
   vulnerability and we will see more of these in the future.   
      
   --   
     //Aho   
      
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