OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows. Its Creator Trusts No One
OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows PC. Its Creator Trusts No One.October 05, 2026 · 36 min read OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt was pushed out of NetBSD, lost a DARPA grant and fought half of open source. Now his paranoid code guards the world's servers.I.
- ▪OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows PC.
- ▪Its Creator Trusts No One.October 05, 2026 · 36 min read OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt was pushed out of NetBSD, lost a DARPA grant and fought half of open source.
- ▪Now his paranoid code guards the world's servers.I.
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| Original publisher | Bruce Li |
| Canonical URL | https://zbruceli.org/blog/the-man-who-trusts-no-one/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:25:20 +0000 |
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OpenSSH Ships on Every Mac, Linux Server and Windows PC. Its Creator Trusts No One.October 05, 2026 · 36 min read OpenSSH creator Theo de Raadt was pushed out of NetBSD, lost a DARPA grant and fought half of open source. Now his paranoid code guards the world's servers.I. Half a SecondUntil the last days of March 2024, almost nobody outside a small circle of programmers had heard of liblzma. It was a compression library, a piece of plumbing buried deep in Linux, and for two years someone had been preparing to use it to walk through the front door of the internet.He called himself Jia Tan. He was patient. He wrote helpful patches. He was polite to an exhausted volunteer maintainer, and useful, and always there, and in time he was given the keys. Then he began to build.
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