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mechanicjay [{mechanicjay} {at} {soylentnews.org}] writes:

A developer of some Ruby Gems pulled the code as a statement against certain entities (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/ [zdnet.com]

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

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