Clive Robinson • April 15, 2025 1:02 PM

@ wiredog,

“I think this is related to the problem…”

In a way…

Think of “Slopsquatting” as a “begining of Artificial life” problem.

And of “Log4J” as an indicator to an “End of hunan life” problem.

The simple fact is it’s not just “burnout” claiming “Lone Open Source” developers, quite a few are now are lets say in the “retirement zone” of being well over 60.

Life expectancy in the US is dropping, some are claiming 61 is where it’s happening. Whilst in West Europe it’s increasing with 82 being claimed where I live…

But the point is as was seen with some quite famous projects lone developers can become nolonger able to develop.

And that gives an opening for attackers when subscriptions to servers etc lapse. What term they might call it could be “EOLsquatting” because in one form or another it will happen to every project sone day.