Fair enough. FWIW I found the narrative about how the Postgres guy turned it up was entirely believable. Sometimes we just get lucky.
The scary opinion I’ve read in a couple places now is “how many others like this are lurking out there that we didn’t get lucky with?”
@timbray @lcamtuf @rfc6919 @projectgus we do think there's a good chance of this being an organized effort, as the essay suggests. good piece! thanks for it!
we note, however, the existence of ideological motives that could drive an individual to do this.