I think I went through all the stages of grief. Now at the stage of acceptance here’s what I hope: I hope justice is done. Whoever is doing this be they a misguided current black hat (hopefully, future white hat) hacker, or just someone or someones that want to see the world burn or something in between that we see justice. And then forgiveness and acceptance and all that can happen later.
Mitnick reformed after he was convicted (whether you think that was warranted or not). Here if these folks are Mitnick’s or bad actors etc let’s get all the facts on the table and figure this out.
What’s clear is that we all need to be ever vigilant: that seemingly innocent patch could be part of a more nefarious thing.
We’ve seen it before with that university sending patches to the kernel to “test” how well the core team was at security and how well that went over.
Anyways. Yeah. Glad you all allowed me to grow. And I learned that I have an emotional connection to open source for better or worse: so much of my life professional and otherwise is enabled by it and so threats to it I guess I take personally.
