Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus

Beware: the people behind PuTTY, the renowned FOSS SSH client for Windows, are not the same people as those behind the PUTTY.ORG website.

An unfolding controversy over the contents of a website that contained links to several different pieces of SSH-related software has escalated. At the time of writing, the owners of the website have replaced this content with anti-vaccination propaganda.

PuTTY is a well-known SSH client by Simon Tatham, "a software engineer and free-software author in Cambridge, UK" as he describes himself. PuTTY has been around for a long time. As far as we can tell, The Register first mentioned it in 2008, when it was already about a decade old. The oldest release described in the change history on its homepage is version "0.45 (released 1999-01-22)."

The issue began because the PuTTY homepage is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/. The Register's own Verity Stob described it as a "charming, ancient website" back in 2013.

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