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This 2011 addition to the XZ Utils Wikipedia page is interesting because a) why is this relevant, b) who is Mike Kezner since he's not mentioned on the Tukaani project page (https://tukaani.org/about.html) under "Historical acknowledgments".

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=XZ_Utils&diff=pre...

Arch Linux played an important role in making this compression software trusted and depended upon. Perhaps not a coincidence, but at the very least, such a big project should more carefully consider the software they distribute and rely on, whether it's worth the risk.



> Arch Linux played an important role in making this compression software trusted and depended upon.

because of the way arch distributes packages? then what you think about freebsd?


If you check the history of that IP address, it added Mike Kezner to other pages. No clue why.




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