Are you raising the same concerns and targeting individuals behind all other sensitive projects? No, because that would be insane.
It's weird to have one set of standards to a maintainer since 2009 or so, and different standards for others. This witch hunt is just post-hoc smartassery.
Yes, I think if a project has backdoors and its old maintainers are unable to review them, I am more critical than with normal projects. As said, compression is used everywhere and in embedded systems, it touches a lot of critical stuff. And the project went straight for that since the beginning.
And this is in part because I can not even tell for sure that he even exists. If I had met him a few times in a bar, I would be more inclined to believe he is not involved.
> As said, compression is used everywhere and in embedded systems, it touches a lot of critical stuff. And the project went straight for that since the beginning.
It's weird to have one set of standards to a maintainer since 2009 or so, and different standards for others. This witch hunt is just post-hoc smartassery.