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I was trying to decide whether to delete Anaconda (which I have not thus far ended up using- my research has gone straight qual, and not in the way that pretends to be quants) and came across this story so wild and understandable and lamentable that I will be thinking about it forever

You will know about this if you're a coder; I am coming to it belatedly as a scholar of institutions and the way that left-surplus is a relentlessly attractive attack surface for malicious actors

It's worth following the links if you want the full bad actor, fake pile-on to actual OS coder, handwringing about inefficacy as actual evildoing, psychodrama

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/