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Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time"
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Funny enough, I was just listening to an episode of a podcast that had the inventor and maintainer of Curl on, and they described the methods for bug solving and feature requests.
He said while he largely doesn't do most of the work, he still reads over code and denies random new internet protocols until it matures, and often by the time they worked have added it in a release the fad is gone.
I forget what they said about bugs, but I do know he said "I have good people who have written more code for my program than myself, and when they find bugs or get issues, i trust them over random github accounts."
I don't think this will last long from curl directly, the issue is devices that don't or can't be upgraded.