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		bed99 on March 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH ser... 1 week ago "Hans Jansen" user "hjansen" was created in debian and opened 8 PRs including the upgrade to 5.6.1 to xz-utils From https://salsa.debian.org/users/hjansen/activity Author: Hans Jansen <hansjansen162@outlook.com> - [Debian Games / empire](https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/empire): opened merge request "!2 New upstream version 1.17" - March 17, 2024 - [Debian Games / empire](https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/empire): opened merge request "!1 Update to upstream 1.17" - March 17, 2024 - [Debian Games / libretro / libretro-core-info](https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/libretro/libretro-core-i...): opened merge request "!2 New upstream version 1.17.0" - March 17, 2024 - [Debian Games / libretro / libretro-core-info](https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/libretro/libretro-core-i...): opened merge request "!1 Update to upstream 1.17.0" - March 17, 2024 - [Debian Games / endless-sky](https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/endless-sky): opened merge request "!6 Update upstream branch to 0.10.6" - March 17, 2024 - [Debian Games / endless-sky](https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/endless-sky): opened merge request "!5 Update to upstream 0.10.6" - March 17, 2024 - [Debian / Xz Utils](https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xz-utils): opened merge request "!1 Update to upstream 5.6.1" - March 17, 2024

bombcar on March 29, 2024 | [–]

That looks exactly like what you'd want to see to disguise the actual request you want, a number of pointless upstream updates in things that are mostly ignored, and then the one you want.

detistea on March 30, 2024 | [–]

glad I didn't merge it ...

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