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Any additional information been found on the user?
Probably Chinese?
They're more likely to be based in Eastern Europe based on the times of their commits (during working hours in Eastern European Time) and the fact that while most commits used a UTC+8 time zone, some of them used UTC+2 and UTC+3: https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and
It is also hard to be certain as they could be a night owl or a early riser.
Yeah - The post goes into a lot of detail, and they did take that into account. It's worth reading.
Just because somebody picked a vaguely Chinese-sounding handle doesn't mean much about who or where.
That's why I put the question mark
as long as you're up to date on everything here: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
the only additional thing i've seen noted is a possibilty that they were using Arch based on investigation of the tarball that they provided to distro maintainers