What is unfortunate is that the project has not publicly defended itself, which is what core should have addressed -- that the situation has been broadly and unfairly misreported. The history of wireguard is bizarre, Donnefeld is hellbent on total control of both the protocol and implementations. He blew the same gasket on NetBSD developers for implementing his protocol http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2020/08/22/msg007842.h.... The real story here, that the Ars reporter missed because he allowed himself to be compromised by Donnefeld, is how this single person is accumulating and aiming a cult following as he chooses and what are the security and business implications of this in the future. This is a simple tunneling protocol. I don't expect WG to end well. At the very least, you are subject to public zero days and shakedowns if you don't do exactly what Donnefeld wants. A new black hat open source business model of monetization by mob rule and "scooping" low intellect reporters instead of license and implementation.