Context As you probably already know by now, a backdoor/security vulnerability has been recently discovered in xz. In this article, I won’t cover the technical aspect or the potential consequences of it (it has already been done by people way more knowledgeable than am I on that matter) but I will expose what I think we should learn from it, from a packaging stand point.

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Context I recently woke up with a non-working network connection in my house, both internet and LAN accesses were down. I immediately checked on my internet provider, but my router seemed running just fine and no breakages were reported on their side in my region. I then decided to check on my own infrastructure and realised that both of my physical servers were down.

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The website This website is built with the HUGO static website generator using the anatole theme. The website’s source code is hosted in this GitHub repository. Automated workflow To manage this website, I use an automated workflow based upon CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery). CI I make my changes (creating an article, update the theme, add new parameters to the website, etc…) locally on my computer inside the git repository in the dev branch.

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As stated in the home page, this website serves as a central place to get general/contact info about me. It also contains a list to all my social media. If you want to contact me, reach me at robincandau@protonmail.com, @Antiz96 on Twitter or Antiz#4953 on Discord. I’ll use this blog section to publish some blog posts when I feel like it.

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