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100: The Spiteful Fork

Episode Summary

Drama alert! Our long-promised scene drama episode (vol. 1) is here to explore community kerfuffles new and old, with conversations about Ubiquiti's no-good-very-bad week, pfSense's self-immolation via buggy Wireguard commit, Linksys' ancient violations of the GPL, illicit binaries, warring office-furniture companies, petty domain hijacking, and why so many of these situations seem to spring up around open-source projects. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Episode Notes

Drama alert! Our long-promised scene drama episode (vol. 1) is here to explore community kerfuffles new and old, with conversations about Ubiquiti's no-good-very-bad week, pfSense's self-immolation via buggy Wireguard commit, Linksys' ancient violations of the GPL, illicit binaries, warring office-furniture companies, petty domain hijacking, and why so many of these situations seem to spring up around open-source projects.

• pfSense's
  • Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call | Ars Technica
  • The hijacked OPNSense domain: https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/
• Ubiquiti's terrible week:
  • Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” – Krebs on Security
  • Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface (x-post from HackerNews) : Ubiquiti (reddit.com)
• ffmpeg vs Newtek (NDI)
  • #7589 (NewTek distributing non-free FFmpeg build) – FFmpeg
• Linksys GPL Violation:
  • https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/06/08/1749217/is-linksys-violating-the-gpl

Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod