fail2ban is yet another “A project some … person … has been thanklessly maintaining since …”; ensure it does not become yet another XZ Utils debacle
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17
Earlier this week there were only three sponsors for [Wayback/Archive] sebres (Sergey G. Brester) · GitHub.
You might think “Why is this important?”.
Sergey is the single maintainer of fail2ban, the open source project that protects countless (likely a majority) of public facing servers facing on the Internet.
Please don’t let fail2ban become another XZ Utils and support Sergey: we don’t want the project to become unmaintained, or worse: being backdoored like XZ was.
[Wayback/Archive] Sponsor @sebres on GitHub Sponsors · GitHub
The fail2ban repository is at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fail2ban/fail2ban: Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
Via [Wayback/Archive] dee 🏳️⚧️: “fail2ban has one core maintain…” – Grafana Social
fail2ban has one core maintainer github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban and he has only 3 Github sponsors github.com/sebres
WTF
I can’t even comprehend how many servers are protected by fail2ban, how many compromises are avoided, how many people who run hobby things all the way up to major sites that get to sleep soundly every night… because of this single project.
--jeroen
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