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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday September 22 2019, @07:34PM
From TFA:
The Chef CEO did add that he didn't agree with the ICE's practices of separating families and detaining children, but that "Chef as a company that transcends numerous U.S. presidential administrations."
Well, IBM sold tabulating machines to the Nazi and they're still around. Why would Chef feel compelled to act otherwise?
Corporations are psychopatic [politicususa.com]. They don't care about morals. So it's not particularly surprising...