A backdoor in xz

IMHO, if you hate systemd and blame it for this problem without taking the time to see if anyone else has already debunked your argument, you're unwittingly helping "Jia Tan."

I very much doubt it was a primary objective, but I'm sure it is just icing on the cake for the people responsible for this backdoor that they can count on all the people who hate systemd to
waste everyone's time with their predictable knee-jerk reactions.

I've already lost count of the number of times I've seen the exact same argument both here in various subthreads of *this* conversation and on various mailing lists, etc.

Thankfully it can be quickly and thoroughly debunked, but it's still a distraction and a waste of time & effort that only serves to slow our response to this attack.

If you're one of those people, I recommend some soul searching. It's human nature to want to score easy points, but blind hate doesn't help anyone and actually gets in the way of what I thought was the point of open source — to make the world a better place.