[anonymous-panda]

You don’t need vouching for anyone. mDL is going to be a mechanism to have a government authority vouch your identity. Of course a state actor like this can forge the identity, but that forgery at least will give a starting point for the investigation to try to figure out who this individual is. There’s other technical questions about how you verify that the identity really is tied in some real way to the user at the other end (eg not a stolen identity) but there are things coming down that will help with that (ie authenticated chains of trust for hw that can attest the identity was signed on the given key in person and you require that attestation).

As for people accusing you of an intentional RCE, that may be a hypothetical scenario but I doubt it’s very real. Most people have a very long history of good contributions and therefore have built up a reputation that would be compared against the reality on the ground. No one is accusing Lasse Collin of participating in this even though arguably it could have been him all along for what anyone knows.

It doesn’t need to be perfect but directionally it probably helps more than it hurts.

All that being said, this clearly seems like a state actor which changes the calculus for any attempts like this since the funding and power is completely different than what most people have access to and likely we don’t have any really good countermeasures here beyond making it harder for obfuscated code to make it into repositories.