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This is true for every distro and it grinds me that Nix is even mentioned.
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mechanism, or it didn't happen. and if any OS, then for windoze please!
if ( file_checksum == xz_backdoor ) { red_alert(); } There. Of course this doesn't buy you anything if the exploit is changed to target a "patched" OS but the same goes for the proposed Nix solution.
automatic here means that code written prior to the existence/knowledge of the xz backdoor catches not only this specific attack, but the entire class of such tarball attacks.