the lesson *I'm* choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons
Wild, so it would suggest that the actor wasn’t Chinese at all. An authentic Chinese person probably wouldn’t choose a name that sounded like that, any more than I would name myself Sean MacBerkowitz, it would just sound wrong.
A random name generator might produce something like this, of course, if it wasn’t programmed to be too picky.
Or they are Chinese, and pick non-authentic Chinese names so people wouldn’t suspect them? I don’t think looking at the name can be a great way to identify the source.
This attack is clearly sophisticate: the attacker(s) are probably well-trained in obscuring their identity to not reveal much info from their name picks. Say, just use a random name generator.
Wild, so it would suggest that the actor wasn’t Chinese at all. An authentic Chinese person probably wouldn’t choose a name that sounded like that, any more than I would name myself Sean MacBerkowitz, it would just sound wrong.
A random name generator might produce something like this, of course, if it wasn’t programmed to be too picky.
Or they are Chinese, and pick non-authentic Chinese names so people wouldn’t suspect them? I don’t think looking at the name can be a great way to identify the source.
This attack is clearly sophisticate: the attacker(s) are probably well-trained in obscuring their identity to not reveal much info from their name picks. Say, just use a random name generator.
Except it is a Chinese name, as Cantonese is spoken in China. Lots of speculation here by people missing vital information.