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fwupd and xz metadata

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A few people (and multi-billion dollar companies!) have asked for my response to the xz backdoor. The fwupd metadata that millions of people download every day is a 9.5MB XML file -- which thankfully is very compressible. This used to be compressed as gzip by the LVFS, making it a 1.6MB download for end-users, but...

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