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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by randomname@scribe.disroot.org to c/programming@programming.dev

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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 2 hours ago

You may want to look into how the xz backdoor has been discovered. That backdoor was very well hidden. Implementing a crypto mining malware would be blatantly obvious and yes, people do in fact look at such code