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mikeizbicki
Some timely interenet drama
Recall that nginx is currently the most popular webserver on the internet. It is maintained primarily by two people:
- Maxim Dounin
- MegaZone (yes, that is his legal name)
MegaZone issued 2 CVEs for nginx. (CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures and is a system for tracking security flaws/bugs in software.) Maxim Dounin disagreed with MegaZone, and ragequit the project in an email to the nginx mailinglist. He has started his own fork he calls "freenginx" at https://freenginx.org.
There's lots more discussion of the drama at
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373327
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373612
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In unrelated news, an ISP called "US Internet" accidentally leaked all of their customers emails to the internet due to misconfiguring nginx and ansible (a docker-compose alternative with more features). This is particularly embarrassing for them because their main product was a secure email service and had lots of government/high profile business customers.
See more discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39372087
