Thought this was a good read exploring some how the “how and why” including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

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    6 months ago

    I cannot be sure, but I believe Lasse never met “Jia Tan”. You usually don’t get employed by a company writing closed source software without meeting and talking to several people. And since nobody works without a salary, you get some sort of tracking towards the person’s identity as well.