Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

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Welcome Half a Second Welcome Preface I The Discovery 1  Half a Second 2  Blood in the Water 3  Forty-Eight Hours 4  What We Almost Lost II The Long Setup 5  One Person in Finland 6  Jia Tan Appears 7  The Sock Puppets 8  The Handover 9  The Payload III The Foundation 10  The Release Train 11  The Cathedral Nobody Built 12  The Asymmetry 13  The Maintainer Economy IV The Aftermath 14  The Hunt 15  Trust as Infrastructure

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