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Political Statement Takes Down Chef

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

mechanicjay writes:

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: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday September 22 2019, @06:56PM

    by sjames (2882) on Sunday September 22 2019, @06:56PM (#897216) Journal

    That second screw-up does not bode well for a server configuration tool.

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