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the biggest hack that never happened: the xz utils story

Author
Kaleidoscope
Published
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Episode Link
https://omny.fm/shows/killswitch/the-biggest-hack-that-never-happened-the-xz-utils-story

While you were going about your life, we all narrowly avoided a complete disaster. This is the story of how one lone Microsoft engineer saved all of us. Dexter talks to Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer at SentinelOne, about how it all went down and why this story still terrifies him today.

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