THIS.

Conflating a software vulnerability with a criticism of the overall concept is a good way to become non-credible and get both ignored

The article repeatedly claims the entire concept is mere "activism theater" yet with zero evidence or even discussion to back up the claims. In fact, this sort of app may be very effective in both helping people evade authoritarian raids and helping generate flash-mob-type protests that impede the authoritarians. Every bit of friction added to authoritarian rule improves the likelihood of successfully defeating it.

And, buried in the vague overall accusations of not liking the app, the author is stating he's using the wrong version of Apache. I missed anything about the actual good version if it was in there. And, he openly admits he has no idea if the server in question even houses any significant data.

The whole article comes off as the author being an asshat, and even more sore that he's being ignored. TBF, I'd probably ignore him too.

But yeah, it probably is a good idea to run the update sooner rather than later.

Oh that app did a huge thing just by showing how far the administration is willing to go with its delusional fascist nonsense. The app was _barely_ functional and available on a minority of the smart phones, and yet there the White House was, making hyperbolic claims on a regular basis about the massive "dangers" it posed. They even went so far as to go after the guy's wife since they didn't have any legal means to oppose him.

Things which take minimal effort but produce a massive response are what Trump's fire hose of duplicitous social media posts are all about. It's perfectly fine work to leverage that same asymmetry in response.