what if Jia Tan was an undercover nsa agent and they gained the trust of the community and then backdoored xz because linux had (i think) no nsa backdoors
and the nsa has tried to backdoor linux before but their requests were denied
crazie conspiracy theory, I know
doesn’t the NSA pay other countries to spy on the US because they can’t?
so it could’ve been some other country being paid by the NSA