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“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons” (crabby.fyi)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] xantoxis 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wild, so it would suggest that the actor wasn't Chinese at all. An authentic Chinese person probably wouldn't choose a name that sounded like that, any more than I would name myself Sean MacBerkowitz, it would just sound wrong.

A random name generator might produce something like this, of course, if it wasn't programmed to be too picky.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Or they are Chinese, and pick non-authentic Chinese names so people wouldn't suspect them? I don't think looking at the name can be a great way to identify the source.

This attack is clearly sophisticate: the attacker(s) are probably well-trained in obscuring their identity to not reveal much info from their name picks. Say, just use a random name generator.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Except it is a Chinese name, as Cantonese is spoken in China. Lots of speculation here by people missing vital information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The name is suspicious because "Jia Cheong Tan" uses two different romanization of Chinese used in different regions. "Jia" and "Tan" seems to be pinyin, which is commonly used in the mainland; yet "cheong" uses probably Wade-Giles which is used in Taiwan.

OP seems to suggest cheong is Jyuping, which is used as a romanization for cantonese, but according to wikipedia, "eong" is not a final for Jyuping. So I don't think this is Jyuping.

disclaimer: I don't know a lot about Jyuping or Wade-Giles, so everything I put out is from wikipedia.

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