230: Maybe Gentoo Was Right All Along

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🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week we attempt to unpack the recent, historic security breach in the open source world, after the discovery of a secret backdoor that was inserted by a malicious actor into the the xz-utils package, with a focus on which specific Linux distros were targeted and why, how the attacker socially engineered their way into the position of authority that made this possible, and what ought to be done to support developers of critical infrastructure to (hopefully) prevent this from happening again. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Okay, Brad, yesterday we went to Great America and I finally did the thing I've been meaning to do for a long time.
0:04.9	Took a bath and cotton candy?
0:07.0	Well, okay, there was a little bit of cotton candy and there were churros consumed.
0:11.7	Good.
0:12.2	They were dipped in goo.
0:13.9	What kind of goo? Hang on.
0:15.2	Strawberry today.
0:16.3	Okay.
0:17.0	Sometimes it's Bavarian cream.
0:18.4	Sometimes it's strawberry right now because it's Peanuts Festival for some reason.
0:22.4	They have a red velvet slash sour cream cheese icing churro that they make, but only apparently on week like weekday food at the park.
0:33.3	Not anywhere near as wild as weekend food.
0:35.4	I believe that.
0:35.8	I learned.
0:36.4	Yeah.
0:36.5	I'll look.
0:36.8	I'll take whatever goo I can get.
0:38.3	Anyway.
0:39.0	So for people who don't know,
0:39.9	Great America is like the,
0:41.1	it's like a theme park.
0:42.0	It's down,
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