A former employee of an IT startup was upset about a contract with ICE. The outage he triggered has exposed a big new risk for companies using open source.

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By Rosalie ChanSep 20, 2019, 8:19 pm423 pts
On Thursday, several customers of the IT automation startup Chef faced outages after a former employee removed code from his account that Chef's software had been relying on. Seth Vargo, the former employee, decided to do this after finding out that his code was being used by Immigration and Customs…

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