From Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? :
In the cybersecurity world, a database engineer inadvertently finding a backdoor in a core Linux feature is a little like a bakery worker who smells a freshly baked loaf of bread, senses something is off and correctly deduces that someone has tampered with the entire global yeast supply. It’s the kind of intuition that requires years of experience and obsessive attention to detail, plus a healthy dose of luck.
Ah yes, database engineers.
Yes, that's a profession that definitely involves "years of experience and obsessive attention to detail, plus a healthy dose of luck". Spot on!
There are still a lot of mysteries left about what exactly happened with xz, and this article is just a high-level summary.
But this database engineer loved that quote!
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