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Probability of backdoors in popular harnesses and LLM inference engines

Let's put things into perspective: Remember, for example, the xz utils ssh backdoor in 2024? They almost managed to pull it off, and that was in the most observed codebase of the planet. It was caught almost by chance by someone working on something unrelated. Read about it if you don't realize how…

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  1. 2026-10-23 13:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Probability of backdoors in popular harnesses and LLM inference engines

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