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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?(www.nytimes.com)

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Q*Bert Reynolds@sh.itjust.works
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“Engineers have been circulating an old, famous-among-programmers web comic about how all modern digital infrastructure rests on a project maintained by some random guy in Nebraska. (In their telling, Mr. Freund is the random guy from Nebraska.)”

That’s not quite right. Lasse Collin is the random guy in Nebraska. Freund is the guy that noticed the whole thing was about to topple.

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BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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and that one guy (Lasse) was burnt out and pressured [by jia?] to step back and let jia be the person that the whole internet infrastructure relied upon

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Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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Publicly pressured by sock puppets. You can see some rando doing similar in repositories for projects like Avahi.

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