Lighthouse

Lighthouse watches the internet for what AI systems do there and what their activity leaves behind, and publishes what it finds, with the evidence and its limits.

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The xz backdoor, read through Lighthouse's three layers

The question

What would Lighthouse’s three layers have shown during the documented xz backdoor event, and which carried the first detectable signal?

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In this retrospective case reading, malicious tarballs were public before recognition, while memory-checking errors and later ssh overhead supplied activity-layer signals. The earlier errors were answered by the backdoor’s author; the later investigation exposed the backdoor.

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