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by ncpa-cpl 1613 days ago
I liked their contact email: vt100@charm... :)
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Everything there is worded so that sysadmins and devops kind of persons will love it. All the product names are cute and innocuous. This is a huge red flag and the entire operation is highly suspicious.
Yup, it's that old classic again! Goes something like this:

Step 1: Produce cutesy web site clearly aimed at a specific demographic

Step 2: ???

Step 3: ???

I've seen it so many times now that I can't believe people are still falling for it.

Falling for what?
That's the joke.
What do you suspect they are doing?
Supply chain attacks?
If they put this much effort into planting some backdoor that's going to get burned the second it's used or spotted in the openly published source code they can have it
They are building the supply chain. Who knows who the targets will eventually be; never everyone.
chill down
This appealed to me, too. Maybe the demo they are going for is, old.