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.
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.
Introduced by maintainer not a random push
Closed source software has maintainers as well, the company that makes it
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.