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In a movie, he was killed by foreign state actors, and his identity assumed by the foreign state hacker. Actually, someone should check on him.

or > 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.

In that case why bother with the Jia Tan persona at all instead of just pushing the malware as Lasse Collin.

> 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.