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LAS14

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2. From a comment on YouTube

Reply to ItsjustMe (Original post)

Wed May 8, 2024, 03:54 PM

May 2024

Last edited Wed May 8, 2024, 04:37 PM - Edit history (1)

This backdoor only affected amd64 systems (so ARM computers wouldn’t have been affected) and it would likely take some time before it got into Debian and Ubuntu LTS (used by a ton of servers), as they only receive non-security updates every ~2 years, so if it was discovered 1 month later, we would probably be fine.

So, can someone de-techify this and tell me which computers would have been impacted?

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Is this info published elsewhere? nt LAS14 May 2024 #1

Absolutely, just do a search for Linux backdoor ItsjustMe May 2024 #3

Asking from a non-tech perspective. LAS14 May 2024 #5

From a comment on YouTube LAS14 May 2024 #2

No computers will be impacted. ItsjustMe May 2024 #4

Yeah, I got that. Should have said "would have been" nt LAS14 May 2024 #6