Bootstrappable builds

Posted Jan 13, 2021 4:02 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Bootstrappable builds by mathstuf
Parent article: Bootstrappable builds

That was Linux kernel. An attacker hacked the public CVS mirror to include this code but this was caught by Larry McVoy noticing that BitKeeper history doesn't match.

Here's the fine article from the LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/57135/