"Half a Second" a book on the XZ backdoor
Date:
Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:52:04 +0000
Description:
Adrian Mastronardi has released a book called Half a Second ; it is a
detailed look into the XZ backdoor attempt of 2024. The book is freely available under a (non-free) noncommercial,
no-derivatives CC license. Half a Second tells that story as one continuous narrative:
the burned-out volunteer who maintained the code alone and was
patiently, expertly manipulated into giving it up; the engineer
whose half-second of curiosity caught the attack through a chain of
luck and hard-won instinct; and the operator who built it, who has
never been identified and, this book argues, may never be.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1083466/
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