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$ brew info xz
==> xz: stable 5.6.1 (bottled)
General-purpose data compression with high compression ratio
https://xz.tukaani.org/xz-utils/
/usr/local/Cellar/xz/5.6.1 (166 files, 2.6MB) *
Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-03-13 at 11:15:23
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/x/xz.rb
License: 0BSD and LGPL-2.1-or-later and GPL-2.0-or-later and GPL-3.0-or-later
==> Analytics
install: 358,082 (30 days), 768,551 (90 days), 3,042,714 (365 days)
install-on-request: 83,030 (30 days), 171,762 (90 days), 523,672 (365 days)
build-error: 1,415 (30 days)
😱
the backdoor only applied on certain x64 linux distros as far as we know, but this is still,,,, oh no