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[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A line of code that enables the backdoor was out present in the tarball. The actual code was obfuscated within an archive used for the unit testing.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 4 points 4 months ago

OK. So simply reading what was readable wouldn't have helped. Thanks.