Veritasium

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

The video traces the evolution of open source software and security, showing how open collaboration led to both incredible progress (Linux, GNU, SSH, XZ) and new risks. It follows a fictional backdoor case threaded through real-world mechanisms (GOT, IFUNCs, LZMA, RSA, OpenSSH) to illustrate how vulnerabilities can be injected, discovered, and mitigated, while exploring the human, organizational, and geopolitical factors that shape cybersecurity in the open-source era.