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Comment by Jonnax | Hacker News Reader

Some people are trying to push a conspiracy theory that the maintainer and the contributor are the same person.

No, I was going for questioning and help with their investigations.

Seems like something serious and illegal happened. Possibly to do with a hostile state. Where I live, there would be at least 2 different organisations that would be very interested to find out what happened as quickly as possible. I don't for one second think he was involved but he would be essential in any investigation.

In whose jurisdiction?

I am not sure, but I'd expect the FBI's cyber crime division.

If you look at the list of (former) contributors of Tukaani, you will notice that an overwhelming majority of the names are Finnish, Lasse included, though he could also pass for Swedish. So FBI is going to investigate Github at most, unless Lasse has suddenly moved to the US or FBI has invaded Finland in some capacity.

https://tukaani.org/about.html

All meaningful new information will probably come from identifying Jia Tan, if that ever happens. I haven't done much reading yet, but it seems to me there was no connection between him and Lasse outside the Github project.

What jurisdiction does the fbi have in Sweden?

> Where I live, there would be at least 2 different organisations that would be very interested to find out what happened as quickly as possible.

What makes you that confident they would? What if Jia actually works for them?

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