#XZ #Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams

However, I believe that he is actually from somewhere in the UTC+02 (winter)/UTC+03 (DST) timezone, which includes Eastern Europe (EET), but also Israel (IST), and some others. Forging time zones would be easy — no need to do any math or delay any commits. He likely just changed his system time to Chinese time every time he committed.

source: https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and

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