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For anyone out of the loop JiaTan was a malicious user known for the XZ Utils attack which almost caused catastrophic damages across the whole internet.
It's difficult to estimate just what the impact would have been had the attack not been caught by Andres Freund who happened to stumble across the attack while looking into performance issues.
Whoever JiaTan is, you can kindly deport yourself off the face of the planet. Thanks.
XZ Exploit - Computerphile
Also the proposed CoC is the CIA's Sabotage Field Manual
With an extra chapter, describing how to corrupt open source projects