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The flip side is companies that are not active participants in the open source community (but know they use open source), are pinging all their engineering managers and asking "are we exposed to this!? how do you know!?".

So while it's useless noise to you, it's likely triggered by being on the receiving end of communications like "Hey, my boss is asking if $PROJECT is vulnerable because of a terrible article he read in $MAINSTREAM_MEDIA_PROPERTY?" times however many bosses are harassing their reports.

"I don't want to craft an email reply to every single person, just put up the no-op blog post and be done with it."