Thought this was a good read exploring some how the "how and why" including several apparent sock puppet accounts that convinced the original dev (Lasse Collin) to hand over the baton.

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[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

imagine how pissed they are. or maybe they silently alerted the microsoft guy themselves as they only did it for cash and theyd been paid

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I am sure most super powers in the world can easily sink 2 years to maintain an obscure project in order to break system as important as openssh.

I doubt they will be pissed for one failure, and we can only hope there isn't more vulnerable projects out there (spoiler alert: probably many).