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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
yutube ^ | 25 February 2026 | Veritasium

Posted on 02/26/2026 6:38:44 AM PST by ShadowAce

How a single hack infected the world’s most important operating system.

Video is 53 minutes. Yes it's long, but it goes into all the background of what happened, plus a post-mortem and analysis.

This is about the xz compression hack several years ago. I remember hearing about it and being thankful we have unaffiliated people who can test things like this when they see an anomaly in the code/testing they are performing.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: cantspellyoutube; internet; linux; security
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To: BenLurkin

i’ll DM you.


41 posted on 02/26/2026 3:56:58 PM PST by Theophilus (covfefe)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
No need for me to show you.

Should social media collapse, the influencers will show you.

42 posted on 02/27/2026 1:11:13 AM PST by Angelino97
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