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		mik1998 on March 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated... I used the git repo at https://git.phial.org/d6/xz-analysis-mirror/commits/branch/m... and simply did `git log --format=%cd --author="Jia Tan"` and then processed it a bit with gnuplot. Should not be difficult to reproduce this graph, but I am not too much of a gnuplot wizard so I first preprocessed this into some different files in a REPL. Don't have the full code of what I did but it should not be difficult to reproduce, just parse the dates and look at the hours.

Aloisius on March 31, 2024 [–]

You should include git log --committer=Jia too as they committed what appears to be their other fake account's changes as well.

Also there are separate author times vs. commit times.

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