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Debian security amirite? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Could be a state actor too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 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.