Drama alert! Our long-promised scene drama episode (vol. 1) is here to explore community kerfuffles new and old, with conversations about Ubiquiti's no-good-very-bad week, pfSense's self-immolation via buggy Wireguard commit, Linksys' ancient violations of the GPL, illicit binaries, warring office-furniture companies, petty domain hijacking, and why so many of these situations seem to spring up around open-source projects.

• pfSense's
  • Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call | Ars Technica
  • The hijacked OPNSense domain: https://opnsense.org/opnsense-com/
• Ubiquiti's terrible week:
  • Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” – Krebs on Security
  • Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface (x-post from HackerNews) : Ubiquiti (reddit.com)
• ffmpeg vs Newtek (NDI)

  • 7589 (NewTek distributing non-free FFmpeg build) – FFmpeg

• Linksys GPL Violation:
  • https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/06/08/1749217/is-linksys-violating-the-gpl

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