Threat-hunting at that level can easily use VPNs to make attributions, especially if those same VPN exit points happen to be correlated to other stuff that was attributed. And when you are Microsoft or Google (Jia Tan had gmail accounts), the telemetry they have goes way beyond "oh we can't see the real IP lolz".

The group responsible for the xz attempted compromise is circulating in certain Chatham House rules conference. It's just that, as someone there said "no one has had the balls to say it publicly", which in itself gives a strong hint.

Can you also please give us your address, so that any person in need can go to your living room to settle down for a bit ?

As someone who has been in and out, the poverty increase in Western Europe is astonishing. Whatever metrics I will show you, will meet something like "oh yeah but metrics X doesn't mean anything", but still, 20y ago buying a car was fairly standard. Going on holidays same. Let's not talk about buying a house. Nowadays, any of the above is considered as a sign of being "privileged", while it used to be middle-class before.

The metrics are similar for most of western europe, which objectively destroyed its economies over the past 30 years throught "social-democracy", 50% taxes, crazy state expenditures, bureaucracy, etc.

That didn't really follow the "international rights" did it ?