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Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug (techcrunch.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You can read and build the source code yourself if you're really worried what some Russian FOSS contributors are up to, but I can assure you it's going to be a lot less sus that whatever a proprietary application can do without any ability to audit and check the code.