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by Bulat_Ziganshin 804 days ago
the motivation is probably "get foot in the door". the attacker also made a few documentation-only PRs in various repos, but having code PR will make him more creditable, and also would help to add more backdoors to libarchive in the future

and librachive is now part of Windows 10, being used as a universal archive decompression library in the Explorer