The security issue is very likely scenario. If you’re in Russia, you can go to jail at any moment on totally bogus charges. It is very easy for FSB to pressure some random kernel maintainer into adding hard to detect backdoor into their code, it will be XZ situation all over again.
Yes they do. See the long-standing debate over the ban to export crypto algorithms to Iran.
Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.
YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable date format, as commanded by ISO 8601.
Torvalds kicked out a bunch of Russia-based kernel maintainers.