Re: Check If Your Distro Is Vulnerable To XZ Backdoor

Farley Flud wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 01:05:18 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Unless you need to remote into your computer, sshd isnt /neccesary/.

 
I do that all the time. It’s a handy way to mirror things between, say, my
main workstation and my laptop, via rsync.

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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  What a clown!
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Only a total idiot would use an encrypted link to transfer
data between machines located 20 feet apart (or less) and
both of which are presumably under his control.
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Do you see bogey men hiding under your sofa?
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Rsync by itself is quite sufficient.
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In fact, on my local network, I use GNU inetutils to
perform actions that are all in the clear, i.e. no
encryption.
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That's because I do not hallucinate bogey men.
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Note that GNU inetutils is no longer offered by most
distros.  You obviously have a lot of paranoiac
brethren.
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Hope you're not on wireless, umbdass.

Oh, I also suspect your "backdoor" is vulnerable :-D

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