Recently this tweet was brought to my attention (by somebody else who saw it and found hilarious). While I agree with the message (I also find those OMGsecurity people annoying and rather counter-productive), the premise is bullshit, namely those two lines:
Arguably the most brilliant engineer in FFmpeg left because of this. He reverse engineered dozens of codecs by hand as a volunteer.
So I’ll try to explain what’s wrong with that claim and FFmpeg twitter account (or FFaccount for short) in general.
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