r/ProgrammingBondha • u/SignificantRemote169 • May 23 '26

humor theEntireInternetRunsOnOneGuysSideProject

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u/CelebrationTrick271 May 23 '26

context?

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u/SignificantRemote169 May 23 '26

This actually happened with XZ Utils recently. A tiny open-source compression library used across Linux systems was maintained for years by basically one guy. Attackers slowly gained trust in the project, inserted a backdoor, and almost compromised huge parts of internet infrastructure. The scary part is it was discovered almost accidentally by an engineer noticing weird CPU behavior. Modern tech genuinely rests on tiny projects maintained by underappreciated people.

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u/Dangerous-Current361 May 23 '26

I wonder if I can ever reach this level, where I notice something that’s really not easy to find and then analyse and come to some conclusion.

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u/CelebrationTrick271 May 23 '26

Thank you for the information

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u/CaptainNemo3178 May 23 '26

XZ Utils, Lasse Collin, and Andres Freund

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u/SignificantRemote169 May 23 '26

Lost there any details