> This was the exact same technique that was used in 2021 by Audacity's update mechanism, which also redirected traffic to servers hosted in other Aeza Group ASNs and planted a dropper for later campaigns.
I can't find anything about this, can you link a source?
I vaguely remember this happening with somebody on an Audacity project, so jumping in! I believe this was on a GitHub issue for that project, but the project has since disabled issues for the repository since they moved source locations. It also definitely hit some press.
If you are curious, some /pol/ and 4chan archives still have some stuff about the sneedacity incident available. There's still someone (a bot?) trying to recruit them to post shit about me from time to time.
Someone tried to kill you?! People actually killed your friends? Not sure if schizophrenia or actual story ... I desperately need to hear more of this story.
I don't think they're being malicious. It is definitely a normal reaction to respond with incredulity at something incredible.
As in, someone was actually killed because their friend forked an open source project? There is clearly more to the story, it's not like if I forked Audacity tomorrow people would be after me immediately.
The explanation, if any, involves the whole thing being very public and 4chan harassment, etc.
> This was the exact same technique that was used in 2021 by Audacity's update mechanism, which also redirected traffic to servers hosted in other Aeza Group ASNs and planted a dropper for later campaigns.
I can't find anything about this, can you link a source?
Have you written about this experience elsewhere? That sounds absolutely nuts.
I vaguely remember this happening with somebody on an Audacity project, so jumping in! I believe this was on a GitHub issue for that project, but the project has since disabled issues for the repository since they moved source locations. It also definitely hit some press.
If you are curious, some /pol/ and 4chan archives still have some stuff about the sneedacity incident available. There's still someone (a bot?) trying to recruit them to post shit about me from time to time.
Someone tried to kill you?! People actually killed your friends? Not sure if schizophrenia or actual story ... I desperately need to hear more of this story.
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I have to say, the fact that you immediately ascribe to malicious intent my very clearly curious request is not making me think schizophrenic less.
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I don't think they're being malicious. It is definitely a normal reaction to respond with incredulity at something incredible.
As in, someone was actually killed because their friend forked an open source project? There is clearly more to the story, it's not like if I forked Audacity tomorrow people would be after me immediately.
The explanation, if any, involves the whole thing being very public and 4chan harassment, etc.