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What’s to discuss? Nothing is known about him.
by db48x 3y ago
What’s to discuss? Nothing is known about him.
- chrismartin 3y agoThere's a lot of metadata about when/how they used git and IRC, and some preliminary analysis on same. Another surname in one of the commits. An apparent LinkedIn account. (See heading "OSINT" in https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo... .) A lot of these tracks could be intentionally manipulated by a sophisticated actor to disguise their identity, but it's not "nothing".
- db48x 3y agoLike I said, we don't know anything worth having a real discussion about. Maybe he was in the +03 time zone, and pretending to be in +08, but that's not enough to base a discussion on.
- qarl 3y agoYou're discussing it.
- samus 3y agoWe are all speculating.
- qarl 3y agoSo this whole thread is based on the premise that the OP was using the formal definition of "discuss" rather than the informal one? Which is almost certainly not true? Ya'll must be super fun at parties.
- samus 3y agoEither kind of discussion is useless since the "evidence" (timezone IDs in strings that are not required to have any relation whatsoever with reality) is flimsy to begin with.