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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by Aloisius on Sunday March 31, 2024 @12:24AM (#39881434)
> I had noticed UTC+0300 commits in the repository under his name but I believed they might have been simply committed by the main Finnish maintainer who is in the UTC+0300 timezone.

There was this one though where they are the author and committer... one in +0300, the other in +0800:

  commit 3d1fdddf92321b516d55651888b9c669e254634e
  Author:     Jia Tan <[email protected]>
  AuthorDate: Tue Jun 27 17:27:09 2023 +0300
  Commit:     Jia Tan <[email protected]>
  CommitDate: Tue Jun 27 23:56:06 2023 +0800
The time between writing the file and the commit is 89 minutes.
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