Steven Roussey
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Steven Roussey
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Angel investor, hacker, software
Well, that was a breeze. I’ve now registered my username here as @sroussey.com. I knew I’d eventually find a reason to own that domain.
December 31, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by Steven Roussey
It’s so nice to be at the stage of a lifetime of a platform when everyone mostly agrees the people running it are working hard and doing a good job. Let’s enjoy that while we can!
November 26, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Reposted by Steven Roussey
This might be the best executed supply chain attack we've seen described in the open, and it's a nightmare scenario: malicious, competent, authorized upstream in a widely used library.

Looks like this got caught by chance. Wonder how long it would have taken otherwise.
Woah. Backdoor in liblzma targeting ssh servers.

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-se...

It has everything: malicious upstream, masterful obfuscation, detection due to performance degradation, inclusion in OpenSSH via distro patches for systemd support…

Now I’m curious what it does in RSA_public_decrypt
oss-security - backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
www.openwall.com
March 29, 2024 at 7:29 PM
May 5, 2023 at 5:19 PM
Nice view from my home of a few days last month in NYC.
April 30, 2023 at 1:35 AM
March 1, 2023 at 11:25 PM