FreeBSD OpenSSH Hole? (opens in new tab)

He might think they're stupid, that's not hard to believe. What's hard to believe is that he's altruistic enough to work on a huge open source project, but not enough to inform someone else of a hole that would affect a lot of people.

Pretty straightforward — Theo De Raadt is quite a well-known "controversial" character, and he's pretty blunt with it, too. Remember, he's the guy who was punted from NetBSD for "[a] long history of rudeness towards and abuse of users and developers," and the guy who Linus Torvards described as "difficult."

He's also an astoundingly capable, effective and security-focused developer. This means that there's probably a hole in the FreeBSD distribution of OpenSSH that he's aware of any has not disclosed. Dickish behaviour, but that's his MO, so there's little to be surprised about.