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[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago
[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 6 months ago

Certainly, that's why I said organization to be vague.

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Sorry I should have been more clear too. I was trying to convey that the dev could have been paid off/threatened or it could be the work of a state actor or team of state actors under an alias. In one case they could care about their reputation but in the other maybe not.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

By the sounds of it it was an organised social engineering attack. Almost certainly "Jia Tan" is not a real person, or if it is a real person then it's a case of stolen identity. Even if I were being threatened to put a backdoor in some software I wouldn't do it under my real name.

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