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0 pointsfullstackchris1y ago0 comments

pRoBaBlY a StaTe AcToR

zero definition of what that means...

egos of people who just like to say cool words they don't understand

lol

this comment will probably get deleted, but let the action of this comment being deleted stand that in 2024 we're all allowed to use big words with no definition of what they mean -> bad

state actor? who? what motive? what country? all comments involving "state actor" are very broad and strange... i would like people to stop using words that have no meaning, as it really takes away from the overall conversation of what is going on.

i mean you're seriously going to say "state actor playing the long game" to what end? the issue was resolved in 2 hours... this is stupid

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Hackbraten1y ago

For starters, the backdoor was technically really sophisticated.

For example, the malicious code circumvents a hardening technique (RELRO) in a clever way, which would otherwise have blocked it from manipulating the sshd code in the same process space at runtime. This is not something that script kiddies usually cook up in an afternoon to make a quick buck. You need experts and a lot of time to pull off feats like that.

This points to an organization with excellent funding. I’m not surprised at all that people are attributing this to some unknown nation-level group.

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