Julien Malka

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PhD student working on NixOS, software supply chains, and reproducible builds.

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NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor

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In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz, a (de)-compression software that is regularly used at the core of Linux distributions to unpack source tarballs...