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the biggest hack that never happened: the xz utils story

the biggest hack that never happened: the xz utils story

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April 30, 202541m 2s

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Show Notes

While you were going about your life, we all narrowly avoided a complete disaster. This is the story of how one lone Microsoft engineer saved all of us. Dexter talks to Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer at SentinelOne, about how it all went down and why this story still terrifies him today.

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