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I don't understand the disappointment expressed here in the maintainers deciding to WONTFIX these security bugs.

Isn't this what ffmpeg did recently? They seemed to get a ton of community support in their decision not to fix a vulnerability

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ffmpeg doesn't have a cargo-cult of self-proclaimed "privacy experts" that tell activists and whistleblowers to use their thing instead of other tools cryptographers actually recommend.

Yeah, instead they have a cargo-cult of self-proclaimed OSS contribution experts who harass anyone that critiques or challenges ffmpeg's twitter account.

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