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How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
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Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, narrowly escaped a massive cyber attack over Easter weekend, all thanks to one volunteer.
The backdoor had been inserted into a recent release of a Linux compression format called XZ Utils…