e2le 4 days ago

archive.today has a snapshot taken on 28 Feb 2025, although it doesn't show any repository with that name.

https://archive.ph/fUa5Q

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jonnycomputer 4 days ago

This confuses me greatly. Comparing your link, I can find the repos in that screenshot in the archive snapshot, but as you say, the NxGenBdoorExtract repo is not there, and the repo where it would be is a tinder-react-native clone (updated Sep 20 2020)...

I'm trying to think through this:

1. if the screenshot is not doctored, then the implied ordering of last updated would have had it last updated before January 20, 2021; which would mean it has nothing to do with what is alleged in the article.

2. But in the archive.ph snapshot from 2/28/25 doesn't have it at all anywhere.

3. Archive.org's 3/21/25 snapshot shows the same thing as archive.ph

4. The article states that after this tweet (https://x.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1895609294810464390) dated 2/28/25 (the date of the archive.ph 2/28/25 snapshot), Berulis noticed NxGenBdoorExtract in the repo: "After journalist Roger Sollenberger started posting on X about the account, Berulis noticed something Wick was working on: a project, or repository, titled "NxGenBdoorExtract." Wick made it private before Berulis could investigate further, he told NPR.

Of course, if it really only was public for a very brief moment then it might not be in the snapshot, and the article isn't clear exactly how long after that tweet that Berulis supposedly discovered this.

All I can say is this: I can't figure out for the life of me what all this adds up to.