[spenczar5]

It is very interesting to prove whether or not it was a state actor! Surely you can see that that mystery is interesting to many people.

[epcoa]

A state actor would have done a much better job. This was detected nearly immediately and anyone that knew how the system was setup (which was public knowledge) would have known this would be caught. The state level hackers are not that dumb.

If there was a serious backdoor attempt, then this was the distractor.

And seriously back in those days especially Linux didn’t need much help with getting root exploits in the tree.

[dspearson]

It was not a state actor. There were plenty of high profile people and projects being owned just for the fun of it back then.