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A backdoor in xz

A backdoor in xz

Posted Mar 31, 2024 3:13 UTC (Sun) by DimeCadmium (subscriber, #157243)
In reply to: A backdoor in xz by himi
Parent article: A backdoor in xz

Indeed, simpler is better. Simpler is easier to secure, simpler is easier to develop, simpler is easier to maintain (i.e. run a system with it), simpler is easier to modify, simpler is easier to troubleshoot, simpler is easier to understand.

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A backdoor in xz

Posted Mar 31, 2024 13:00 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Indeed, simpler is better.

You can have your remberberries, but the rest of us have to deal with the real world.

...The real world isn't simple, hasn't ever been, and has only trended towards higher complexity.

A backdoor in xz

Posted Apr 1, 2024 14:08 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

FWIW, by porting a system from SysV init to systemd, I was able to close several hard-to-reproduce bugs, since systemd's extra complexity allowed me to remove a ton of complexity from the various scripts that started components of the system, and at least some of that complexity turned out to have race conditions in it that systemd did not have.

There is a huge advantage to one implementation of something done well replacing (in my case) 5 different implementations, all with different bugs.


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