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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

The XZ backdoor was not exploited so it is hard to say what would of been effective.

The important thing to note is changing the defaults on systems. Defaults are bad because it makes it easy to take over a large number of systems easily. Even right now there are bots testing common ports for weaknesses.

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