• macrocarpa@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      …turns out the latest upgrade to your c and c software was stolen from the enemy by cyber squad, and most of your assets on the southern front are now controlled by five primary school cs:go players in Fulham.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      It’s spotted within 5 minutes by some nerd who noticed that the program took an extra ten seconds to load and immediately wanted to know why.

      • uis@lemm.ee
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        7 months ago

        It was chinese backdoor. Russian backdoor will make it load in 10 seconds less.

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        7 months ago

        10s? Pfft, amateur; the xz backdoor caused a ~500ms delay in SSH logins and somebody went “hmm that’s weird”