I don't have any inside knowledge, but I don't think there's any cloak-and-dagger stuff here. I think he just didn't want to maintain it anymore (for whatever r

I don't have any inside knowledge, but I don't think there's any cloak-and-dagger stuff here. I think he just didn't want to maintain it anymore (for whatever reason), and he wanted to warn people away from using unmaintained software. Again, this is just my perception.