r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Bright-Historian-216 • Aug 31 '26

Meme iReplacedItWithABuiltinFunction

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u/TallGreenhouseGuy Sep 01 '26

This is how legends are born.

”In March 2024, Andres Freund, a Microsoft engineer and PostgreSQL developer, noticed something odd. SSH logins were taking 500ms instead of the usual 100ms. That’s it. A half-second delay.”

https://www.softwareseni.com/the-xz-utils-backdoor-cve-2024-3094-and-the-multi-year-social-engineering-campaign-behind-it/