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JiaT75 also has commits in wasmtime according to https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112180082372196735 https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112180082372196735
by davexunit 3y ago
JiaT75 also has commits in wasmtime according to https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112180082372196735 https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112180082372196735
- pinko 3y agoper https://hachyderm.io/@bjorn3/112180226784517099 https://hachyderm.io/@bjorn3/112180226784517099, "The only contribution by them to Wasmtime is a doc change. No actual code or binary blobs have been changed by them."
- mintplant 3y agoJust a documentation change, fortunately: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commits?author=JiaT75 https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/commits?author=... They've submitted little documentation tweaks to other projects, too; for example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/overview/whats-new-cpp-docs?view=msvc-170#community-contributors https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/overview/whats-new-cpp... I don't know whether this is a formerly-legitimate open source contributor who went rogue, or a deep-cover persona spreading innocuous-looking documentation changes around to other projects as a smokescreen.
- bombcar 3y agoMinor documentation change PRs is a well known tactic used to make your GitHub profile look better (especially to potential employers). He could be doing the same thing for other reasons; nobody really digs into anything very deep so I could see someone handing over co-maintenance to a project based on a decent looking Github graph and some reasonability.
- mysidia 3y agoConsider the possibility those type of submissions were part of the adversary's strategy in order to make their account appear more legitimate rather than appearing out of nowhere wanting to become the maintainer of some project.