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posted by martyb on Sunday September 22 2019, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-kitchen-is-closed dept.

A developer of some Ruby Gems pulled the code as a statement against certain entities (Department of Homeland Security — DHS) ultimately using the code. Chef gets owned in the process.

ZDNet has a good rundown of the incident:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-library-after-he-finds-out-ice-was-using-it/

It seems that developers at chef may have used an old copy of the dev's code to get things back up and running again, which seems like exactly the wrong approach.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Sunday September 22 2019, @06:36PM (5 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Sunday September 22 2019, @06:36PM (#897207) Journal

    *sigh* How 'bout shitcanning that Russian BS? It's so worn out.

    And the point is true. Once it's released, it's out of your hands, and is none of your business.

    Now, I would like to know why drawing up old code to keep the system running is the "wrong approach". It seems you do what you can until you find an alternative.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @07:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @07:40PM (#897232)

    How 'bout shitcanning that Russian BS? It's so worn out.

    Did the Republicans ever stop about Obama being a Kenyan Muslim? Bigotry is present on both sides.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Sunday September 22 2019, @08:13PM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Sunday September 22 2019, @08:13PM (#897243) Journal

      Don't care. That's no excuse.

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    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @10:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @10:29PM (#897273)

      The certificate was shown to be a forgery and the person who validated it was the only casualty in an ‘accident’. I guess the NPC meme is apt here.

  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Sunday September 22 2019, @08:14PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 22 2019, @08:14PM (#897244) Journal

    Well, it's none of your business as long as you didn't foresee the abusive uses, or design it to enable the abusive uses, or continue to maintain it despite the abusive uses.

    If you do any of those things, you need to balance the good vs. the bad, and decide whether it is proper to allow use to continue (if you control that) or to maintain it (if you do that).

    If you release software you've pretty much got to accept that people will use it as they choose, because you can't stop them. Not unless you've got fancier lawyers than they do, or have judges in your pocket...and even then not until you can show that they are using it in ways that you didn't approve of. So you might as well say "I place no restrictions upon use", because only the honorable will attend to those restrictions anyway. I believe that MSWindows has been used to control nuclear reactors despite explicit prohibitions.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday September 23 2019, @04:19PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday September 23 2019, @04:19PM (#897640)

    Back when the Russians were stuck with the "holier than thou leftism as a religion" outlook, our left got tons of semi-illegal support from the USSR, and then the Russians got based and don't social status signal their holier than thou marxist superiority, our american leftists are like angry jilted women lashing out at the (russian) man who dumped them.

    So before the big dramatic breakup, the commies at CNN loved the commies at Pravda, but after the big breakup its all about hating the other side and anyone not in my corner is an agent of the other side plotting against me and all that stuff.

    Just watch some womens soap opera dramas, especially some juicy breakup plots, and you get insight into our SJWs hating their former allies.

    Fact of the matter is, between the jilted SJWs and the greedy military industrial complex, Russia got a bad rap for a long time. Now they're just some land empire on the other side of the planet, live and let live, etc.