Lots of analysis of the xz/liblzma vulnerability. Most skip over the first step of the attack:
0. The original maintainer burns out, and only the attacker offers to help (so the attacker inherits the trust of the project built by the maintainer).
Read their words👇🏻 1/
@thesamparr long time listener, first time writer. i've auto transcribed and indexed ~120 MFM episodes to make them searchable https://t.co/SnTV9JcJEe. love the pod
Mark the date: on April 8th @RustUkraine is organising an online @rustlang conference!
I'll be giving a talk on how to reason about Rust code, the bedrock on which I am building pavex!
The talks are a mix of English and Ukranian—check them out!
https://t.co/n8e2bCYf3R
My prediction is that the step from whatever this is to full autonomous LLMs is harder than people guess.
If this is the great filter why can’t we see the robot civilizations? Space would hardly be a barrier to them.