XZ Utils

So there's several different formats.

You see that X, uh, XZ.

For my American friends, it's not X Zed.

You can see Tar zip, all, all this stuff as well.

If it belongs to everyone, it belongs to no one, and no one is on the hook for the invoice.

Which is why the XZ backdoor is the story that should keep people up at night.

Because somebody read that sentence and treated it as an opportunity.

Walk us through it, because it's a multi-year thing, and I want people to feel the duration of it.

Names like Jigar Kumar, Dennis Innes, and what those accounts do is pressure the maintainer.

Lasse Collin.

Lasse Collin, who's maintained XZUtils essentially alone for years on his own time for free.

And the pressure is the cruelest part of the whole thing.