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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.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭.

https://github.com/pcaversaccio

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.

Interesting. Any public discussion available on your case?

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.

gotcha - interesting read indeed. Have not been aware of these old policies.

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