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In a movie his mental health issues would likely have been caused intentionally by the attacker, setting the stage for the mole to offer to step in just at the
by cbolton 3y ago
In a movie his mental health issues would likely have been caused intentionally by the attacker, setting the stage for the mole to offer to step in just at the right time. Seems a bit far fetched in this case though for what looks like a tangential attack.
- maerF0x0 3y agoor > Recently I've worked off-list a bit with Jia Tan on XZ Utils and perhaps he will have a bigger role in the future, we'll see. Is actually Jia Tan has him tied up in a basement and is posing as him. State actors can do that kind of thing.
- account42 3y agoIn that case why bother with the Jia Tan persona at all instead of just pushing the malware as Lasse Collin.
- deanresin 3y agoIn a movie, he was killed by foreign state actors, and his identity assumed by the foreign state hacker. Actually, someone should check on him.
- account42 3y ago> what looks like a tangential attack Does it? I expect that finding someone vulnerable was the more likely approach rather than messing with the life of a stable maintainer, but it does seem very much like the attacker was acting with malicious intent from the start of his interaction with the xz project.