Re: Malware find in the news: xz related.

In article <6609dc9f@news.ausics.net>, not@telling.you.invalid (Computer
Nerd Kev) wrote:

Except that brings up the threat that was suggested in the article
that John McCue linked to earlier in the thread. Businesses can
simply be told by governments or anyone sufficiently powerful to
ignore a backdoor that's been put in, likely reporting any such
discovery to them instead.

That would provoke a stampede away from the affected software, and a
severe risk of whistle-blowing. It could not be kept secret for long.

John