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Jia Tan was a "sleeper black hat", a foot soldier infiltrating some interesting OSS and waiting for further instructions. If you think he's the only one out there, you're wrong. There are many, and it's a hidden security war we're fighting.
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The conversation around allowing/disallowing anonymous contributors is gaining traction again unfortunately. What’s interesting to me is you can just use a made-up name and no one bats an eye. I got chewed out years ago on IRC for a contribution to Linux because I used a handle and not my legal name.
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Interesting. Any public discussion available on your case?
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This was about a decade ago? IIRC I never actually submitted the patch but just asked for help/review in IRC. But this has come up a bunch for Linux (they have a strict name policy). Drew DeVault wrote about this recently. https://drewdevault.com/2023/10/31/On-real-names.html
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(Note: TIL Linux changed the policy to include “known handles” so it’s not limited to real names anymore https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4563201f33a022fc0353033d9dfeb1606a88330)
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