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[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I believe that the bad actor was a contributor for several years before becoming a maintainer

[-] erAck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

Apparently not, you can check commits in https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=summary the first authored commit was 2022-01-28, then long time nothing until 2022-06-10, the first merge as committer was 2022-12-16.

[-] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Interesting! I'd not realised it was so recent

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