A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world.
being able to silence all system services to detect that bump
being able to run stuff in different ways, without a core system component (with and without systemd, as that backdoor only used data when sshd was started via systemd)
having people be perfectionist about performance measurements
having devs test upstream code not shipped to normal distros
being so good microsoft pays people to work on software for it
“Linux saved itself.”
Yeah no Microsoft saved it