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Adrian Mastronardi has published “Half a Second”, a book about the 2024 XZ Utils backdoor attempt, social engineering, an Open Source developer’s burnout, what is known about the attacker behind the backdoor, and how a pedantic performance measurement revealed it all. The book is available free of charge under a (non-free) Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license. https://www.half-second.com/