The Worst Hack Ever Almost Just Happened - ThioJoe

[ItsjustMe]

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1. Is this info published elsewhere? nt

[ItsjustMe]

3. Absolutely, just do a search for Linux backdoor

Dave also did a video on the backdoor.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10971891

Linux Backdoor

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5. Asking from a non-tech perspective.

The search revealed a lot of sources I've never heard of. Did any mainstream media pick up on this?

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2. From a comment on YouTube

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This backdoor only affected amd64 systems (so ARM computers wouldn’t have been affected) and it would likely take some time before it got into Debian and Ubuntu LTS (used by a ton of servers), as they only receive non-security updates every ~2 years, so if it was discovered 1 month later, we would probably be fine.

So, can someone de-techify this and tell me which computers would have been impacted?

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4. No computers will be impacted.

It was found before it was released in the final builds.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10971891

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6. Yeah, I got that. Should have said "would have been" nt