Most Brilliant Engineer in Ffmpeg Left
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The FFmpeg project announced the departure of a key engineer, sparking a low-key discussion on the project's Twitter post about the loss.
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His reason for leaving is that big tech companies overwhelm people like him with security theater. In his own words:
> most of the secrecy around security issues is just theater. All the "best practices" like OpenSSF Scorecards are just an attempt by big tech companies to guilt OSS maintainers to make them work for free