[ShadowAce]

I *think* the experiment was to release these “patches” to the public to see if they would be caught. The experiment was not about the “patches” themselves.

[Bikkuri]

"I *think* the experiment was to release these "patches" to the public to see if they would be caught. The experiment was not about the “patches” themselves."

I agree, it is what I was thinking also.

"One might wonder if this was some CCP-backed attempt to install a backdoor on Linux systems which could be later exploited in a cyber attack."

Also what I was thinking as a possibility, goes with the above post too (like a dry run, like ShadowAce mentioned).