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1.  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 19:52:48 JST 
   @Deiru The thing is, if a state actor wanted to contribute malicious code, no one would've prevented one from doing so white pretending to be some John Smith from Arkansas. This already happened with both the xz backdoor and University of Minnesota contributing buggy code to the kernel, in both cases this was uncovered post factum. Ironically, thanks to the recent endeavours of @marcan who wanted to commit patches under his vtuber persona's name, it's even easier now since the real name policy is essentially deprecated.
   • Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 19:59:12 JST Phantasm

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     @mint @Deiru @marcan There are three possibilities I see why it happened:
     1. some software export sanction with a stupid interpretation
     2. since crypto is considered a weapon and the US government uses Linux, the government might have forced the removal under some undisclosable rule
     3. Linus, Greg or some LF sponsors just wanted the devs gone
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   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 20:05:34 JST 

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt @Deiru @marcan Pinus did show his butthurt belter side, at least. In my experence American companies happen to actually be somewhat laid back in regards to sanctions (we use 100% M$ software stack at my day job, it still gets updates and support) while European ones treat them with Stasi's vigor.