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> I'm honestly really worried about Andres. He thwarted a very expensive operation by an state actor. I don't think Andres is in serious danger, unless he is a
by goku12 3y ago
> I'm honestly really worried about Andres. He thwarted a very expensive operation by an state actor.
I don't think Andres is in serious danger, unless he is a persistent threat to the bad actors. It's true that we owe him big time for discovering the backdoor. But it could have been someone else before him. And it may be someone else the next time. Too much depends on chance for anyone to justify targeting him. They risk blowing their cover by doing that just to satisfy their ego.
- red-iron-pine 3y agohe`s not launching a campaign against Unit 61398 and correlating everything they do to specific FOSS projects. he found a random bug and started asking a few questions. whacking him would accomplish nothing; any random nerd might have found this issue.
- acdha 3y agoAlso he’s a Microsoft employee in Seattle. Unless it was the NSA’s op, the U.S. government is unlikely to ignore a suspicious act in its territory and especially not the precedent that anyone else is allowed to mess with a key infrastructure provider’s employees.