One of the most spectacularly clever weird machines:

https://projectzero.google/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html

“JBIG2 doesn't have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and script that!? That's exactly what this exploit does. Using over 70,000 segment commands defining logical bit operations, they define a small computer architecture with features such as registers and a full 64-bit adder and comparator which they use to search memory and perform arithmetic operations. It's not as fast as Javascript, but it's fundamentally computationally equivalent.”

Semi-related:

https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/wm/

Gotta wonder if there are old copies of Xpdf still in use somewhere sensitive, too.

#FORCEDENTRY

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy

Forced Entry:
🎵 Octoclops

#ForcedEntry

https://open.spotify.com/track/0wVhApId4e5p73JxL8biGW

🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uZ3GLf6lDtDqJSQrY0lMU

🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy

Forced Entry:
🎵 Anaconda

#ForcedEntry

https://open.spotify.com/track/2IPrfDfsqcTQwWqGgU79ZB

Stop these lawless motherfuckers!

Administration Officials Believe Order Lets Immigration Agents Enter Homes Without Warrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/trump-alien-enemies-immigration-agents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U4.I-az.c2sJMDGTtLCE&smid=url-share

#Immigration #ICE #ForcedEntry #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy

Forced Entry:
🎵 Kaleidoscope of Pain

#ForcedEntry

https://open.spotify.com/track/6ItNGhUg3oYkimj9s81gn2

🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uZ3GLf6lDtDqJSQrY0lMU

🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

Hard hitting, old skool boom bap on this latest banger from Leicester's JVF Clique. Forced Entry brings a heavy almost live sounding beat together with strong UK wordplay. MCs Nipper and Chief Vernacular alongside producer Pappa Doc bring a proper throw back to that real classic Hip Hop.

#ChiefVernacular #ForcedEntry #JVFClique #nipper #PappaDoc

https://www.britishhiphop.co.uk/downloads/video/jvf-clique-forced-entry-video.html

📱 iPhone iMessage "Zeroclick" Exploits (ie: FORCEDENTRY / BLASTPASS)

&

⚠️ UK Online Safety Bill Passes

#Apple #News #infosec #cybersecurity #privacy #Pegasus #NSOgroup #spyware #malware #iPhone #iMessage #FORCEDENTRY #BLASTPASS #UK #onlinesafetybill #UnitedKingdom #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #tech #Peertube

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/1RABHkdTMrR3b8uFHGGq6p

#HappyB|irthday to #NancyAllen, the American film / television actor, born in New York #OnThisDay in 1950. A murdered hitchhiker in #ForcedEntry (1975) and an unrepentant bully in #Carrie (1976), she would go on to play appealing heroines for Brian De Palma in #DressedToKill (1980) and #BlowOut (1981), alongside Lewis in Paul Verhoeven's #RoboCop (1987).

#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD

This is phenomenal. And scary. TL;DR: Israel's dodgy NSO Group created a Turing-complete computer to run inside the bitstream of an image compressed with JBIG2, hidden inside a PDF, disguised as a GIF and automatically parsed by unwitting iPhones upon receipt of the message. No need to open it!

https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-project-zero-goes-deep-on-forcedentry-exploit-used-by-nso-group

#Malware #ForcedEntry #NSOGroup