at least on a surface-level analysis, the work was done in China's timezone[0]

of course, you can get computers to say all sorts of things about what the time is where they're geographically located, but it's not nothing.

i do find it strange that there hasn't been much discussion about what was in the object file, but maybe that just takes time.

https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-time...