4DgiftsJul 2, 2024

So i wrote this on the other site (the short messages wannabe porn site) and predictably got just a single response.
Perhaps here I would fare better?

Reading the Qualys writeup about the OpenSSH race condition RCE it occurred to me that there should be a book titled "Beautiful Exploits" in which a handful of beautiful exploits are explained and their philosophical and historical implications are discussed.

Which ones you'd pick?

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@4Dgifts Not exactly an exploit—technically a counter-exploit—but the DirecTV Black Sunday Kill was a thing of beauty.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack/

Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack

One of the most impressive hacks I’ve ever read about has to be the Black Sunday kill. Since the original 2001 Slashdot article I read on this is 99.9% quote, I’m going to do the same. I can see why they quoted so extensively; it’d be

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