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Baby wake up, Jia Tan's identity just dropped (i.ibb.co)
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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 29 points 7 months ago

JIA CHEONG TAN

TEACHING JOAN

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Wait a minute:

CIA AGENT JOHN

I TAG JOHN CENA

The real answer is right in front of us all along. He played us all for fools.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 months ago

who's jia cheong tan?

[-] Wilmo@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Former maintainer of the .xz project for about a year or two. Hid a backdoor into the code that almost made it into many bigger distros if it wasn't found by a Microsoft employee.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago

More specifically, it's the name used by the attacker. Could well be multiple people, or if it's one person (still almost certainly state-funded, but the state can fund one person), a fake name nevertheless. We have no info about this person's real life identity. They used a VPN in Singapore, and some people have looked at the times of the commits to try guess a timezone, though that's not foolproof as they could've just been a nocturnal person, or even tried to schedule commits to happen at a time to suggest they're in a different timezone, though I think the latter is unlikely and overkill.

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

so it's very well possible that they're a CIA agent named John?

[-] Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 7 months ago

Yep seems like a bigger organisation being involved considering fact that this was brewing 2+ years.

[-] HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

i think it's the person that snuck in the xz vulnerability

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