I'm inclined to expect that we should put the blame for that on whomever used legal channels to force Rachel to shut up, although obviously the jury is still out until we know more.
> My life as a mercenary sysadmin can be interesting.
To me this reads as "I was hired as a consutant for something that required a very restrictive NDA."
Turned out the bug was a 2.9 CVE nothingburger. It’s not like they found the FSB/Mossad/NSA had hooks in a remotely exploitable root level process.