[joh6nn]

I'm confused why this is being posted now? This thread appears to have taken place in the days immediately following the original XZ discovery, with no new activity since very early April. It was discussed heavily at the time that Jia Tan had made contributions to other projects and that those were being investigated as well.

Is there something new here I missed, or some additional context that makes this specific commit relevant right now?

[oefrha]

Since the posted thread has been locked since April, even if there’s new information it can’t be on the posted page. I suspect a lot of votes come from people thinking there’s significant new information (otherwise why would this suddenly be #1?) when there’s none.

[bibinou]

Karma farming.

[joh6nn]

Ok, but to what end? Is there some karma-to-dollars pipeline that I don't know about? There a bunch of other platforms that superficially seem like much softer targets with more obvious payoffs.

Like, if we put it in the classic context of

1. Farm Karma

2. ?

3. Profit!

I'm not clear on step 2. What's step 2

And of course that pre-supposes malice (or at least greed), which is in violation of Hanlon's Razor.