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Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

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Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#31

@dang: Please add [2021] to the title.

Why? It is immediately obvious that the PR was published 3 years ago. Github shows the timestamp very clearly in multiple places.

Yes, but this is not about the PR, it is about the discussion. The dates are shown very clearly in many places too. ffs

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#33
post #25

GitHub "community" is just awful. There are people trying to get real work done in that thread, but then there are all these random bystanders piling up to throw in their comments which range from useless to actively harmful and distracting. And it's not an isolated case, this happens pretty much always when some issues attracts attention on GH. Can't we respect the project and give the people there space to work, an…

I like the comment that started with "way too many arm chair 'researchers' in this thread" and then goes on to rudely say that the maintainers are doing a bad job because they merged in the original changes by Jia Tan.

What are you sitting on, if not an arm chair? We all agree that the xz attack was of unparalleled sophistication and complexity, spread carefully over years, funded by a State. Many people were taken in so how is it helpful to pile on Jia Tan's primary victims?

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#34
post #20

I'm confused why this is being posted now? This thread appears to have taken place in the days immediately following the original XZ discovery, with no new activity since very early April. It was discussed heavily at the time that Jia Tan had made contributions to other projects and that those were being investigated as well. Is there something new here I missed, or some additional context that makes this specific co…

Since the posted thread has been locked since April, even if there’s new information it can’t be on the posted page. I suspect a lot of votes come from people thinking there’s significant new information (otherwise why would this suddenly be #1?) when there’s none.

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#35
People in the Western world are comfortable and people in China are very motivated.

I've been reading "the man who solved the market" about Jim Simons and his hedge fund Renaissance. This reminds me that there was a period just after the fall of the Soviet Union where Renaissance was flooded with very technically strong, very motivated, very hard working, and very fraudulent ex-USSR people.

They're leaking guys, wake up.

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#36
post #19

Wild. All of these carefully inserted “seemingly innocuous” changes in the ecosystem to end up contributing to a wider exploit. This comment sums it up nicely with a gif: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609#issuecomm...

this explot is basically "death by a 1000 papercuts", now that i think about it.

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#37
post #3

This was discussed at the time of the libxz revelations and they did re-review all commits in light of this: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2103

imho it's embarrassing that this got merged in the first place.

it's not a major flaw, and no exploit. but it seems as if nobody paid due attention to actual changes.

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#38

People in the Western world are comfortable and people in China are very motivated. I've been reading "the man who solved the market" about Jim Simons and his hedge fund Renaissance. This reminds me that there was a period just after the fall of the Soviet Union where Renaissance was flooded with very technically strong, very motivated, very hard working, and very fraudulent ex-USSR people. They're leaking guys, wake…

I'd be surprised if China has anything to do with this operation.

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#39

People in the Western world are comfortable and people in China are very motivated. I've been reading "the man who solved the market" about Jim Simons and his hedge fund Renaissance. This reminds me that there was a period just after the fall of the Soviet Union where Renaissance was flooded with very technically strong, very motivated, very hard working, and very fraudulent ex-USSR people. They're leaking guys, wake…

I'd be surprised if China has anything to do with this operation.

Who do you favor? One of the Russian Intel agencies? NSA? The Grugq?

Re: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar (2021)

#40
post #16

@dang: Please add [2021] to the title.

Only the original commit was from 2021. The discussion is recent.

Recent is relative, the latest comment is from April 2024, not something that popped up today.
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