> Amusingly, in its war against WP Engine, Automattic might have created the single best advertisement for their chief rival. WP Engine now has proof it’s immun

> Amusingly, in its war against WP Engine, Automattic might have created the single best advertisement for their chief rival. WP Engine now has proof it’s immune to unauthorized plugin takeover. This is a great point. By weaponizing the fact that Automatic controls the plugin registry against a rival by doing something (at best) dangerously adjacent to a supply chain attack, WP Engine stands out now as uniquely immune to that type of attack. This whole thing makes me sad, I used to use wordpress back in the 2000s and even had some plugins in the directory at the time. I was rooting for Matt but the more I read about this the more it seems like Automattic isn't the good actor here.