Ventoy is a tool to make a USB with multiple ISOs bootable, letting you select which ISO to use on boot. Another newly-created account claims to be the dev’s friend and translator and has received no contact from the maintainer.
- deadbeef79000 ( @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ) 4•11 hours ago
I’m not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 5•12 hours ago
I heard people raving about ventoy, i checked it out online, but blobs and chinese maintainer made it seem fishy. Even if a maintainer was legit it only takes CCP thteatening their family to get a backdoor inserted
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) 2•3 hours ago
Oh, if it’s not lemmy.ca and their daily quota of racism…
- electric_nan ( @electric_nan@lemmy.ml ) 13•11 hours ago
This is ridiculous. You don’t trust “Chinese maintainers” (“even if legit” lol), because the “CCP” might threaten “their family to get a backdoor inserted”.
Absolutely unhinged level of fantasy in the context of this project. A nation of 1.4 billion people and you don’t trust anyone there to write software? You know they made your phone and pretty much everything else right? Also, the idea that “the CCP” is somehow uniquely (among governments) willing and able to coerce or commission backdoors in software is a feverishly deluded attitude.
Propaganda has put a backdoor in your brain.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 6•12 hours ago
There are some random accounts that do not look like the original creator. I highly discourage from such titles like this post, because we don’t know. “Ventoy” (creator) did not respond as far as I can see.
Edit: Even if it looks legitimate, it can be impersonating to gain trust. Don’t blindly trust random people from new accounts.
In the best case, the software is unmaintained.
- Virkkunen ( @Virkkunen@fedia.io ) 1•4 hours ago
It is very much actively maintained other than this supposed vacation from the developer. Everything else is purely speculation and what seems to be impersonation of the dev on the fediverse.
- Blaze ( @Blaze@lemmy.zip ) 7•17 hours ago
Interesting context to bring up Lemmy
Edit: from the thread, it’s pretty clear those people were not the creator?