Comments by "Pottenger\x27s Human" (@LTPottenger) on "Linus Torvalds: XZ Utils Breach Raises Questions About Trust in Open Source Development" video.

  1. The university approving after is why they were banned. It was also bad because it wastes a bunch of people's time and is also illegal. They were lucky they did not get sued or even legal charges for the ethics violations.
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  2. It seems pretty unlikely from a lone attacker. Maybe from a government but you can be sure there's backdoors in hardware already for them.
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