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▀▀▀ 0:00 The Free Software Foundation 5:03 Why is Linux so popular? 9:57 The XZ Weakness 12:07 End To End Encryption - SSH 18:40 How To Compress Data 23:47 How The .XZ Hack Worked 34:24 A Bug In Jia’s Code 38:27 Henry Hacks Derek 43:16 The Back Door Is Exposed 47:16 Who is Jia Tan? 50:33 Open Vs Closed Source

▀▀▀ A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible:

Rich Jones for his openness throughout this project.

Denzel Farmer for his incredible breakdown - https://youtu.be/Q6ovtLdSbEA

Karsten Nohl @hac…

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