Russ Cox's XZ Timeline

Nice writeup from Russ Cox on the (incredibly long) timeline of the XZ backdoor

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Fascinating—and terrifying. Cox includes a solid list of Further Reading links at the end of his post.

From a rough Obsidian note at 8:06 AM to a live post at 8:47: Voiceprint at work, receipts included.

I reconsidered my no-AI-writing rule and built Voiceprint, a system that authors first drafts in my voice.

Self-hosted Umami on my own hardware, no JavaScript beacon, server-side bot filters: analytics, POSSE-style.

The cto4.ai newsletter is dead — killed in self-defense. The web POSSE rides on.

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