What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama?

The Register
Apr 6, 2024, 12:12 pm179 pts
What happened, how it was found, and what your vultures have made of it all Kettle It's been about a week since the shock discovery of a hidden and truly sophisticated backdoor in the xz software library that ordinarily is used by countless systems.…

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