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This is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Just thought I'd post it here for no particular or current reason.
Just to be clear: I didn't mean that I didn't do good - I did. I mean that we got unreasonably lucky here, and that we can't just bank on that going forward.

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

Ars Technica

Windows’ current disk formatting UI is a 30-year-old placeholder from Windows NT

"It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived." It never did.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/windows-current-disk-formatting-ui-is-a-30-year-old-placeholder-from-windows-nt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11

“It wasn’t elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.” It never did.

Ars Technica
They said use Let's encrypt 😂👇
The story of the SSH port is 22.

The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.

“A 44-year-old man accused of violently attacking and killing his father Sunday night was deemed by a longtime family friend as a "delusional conspiracy theorist”…[who] recently learned his father had received the vaccine.”

Someone should tally up the #QAnon/#antivaxx death toll during the Trump era. It’s high, with a number of cases involving people murdering family members.

https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/region-c-palm-beach-county/stop-you-are-killing-me-dad-pleas-during-sons-fatal-attack-deputies-say

'Stop, you are killing me,' dad pleads during Wellington son's fatal attack, deputies say

A 44-year-old man accused of violently attacking and killing his father was deemed by a longtime family friend as a "delusional conspiracy theorist," according to a probable cause affidavit.

WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm
The war in Ukraine is pushing up levels of domestic violence as stress levels rise & traumatized combatants return home. But victims are struggling to find help, with soldiers seen as national heroes. Read @fullerproject’s story in partnership w/ @time: http://bit.ly/3JBuntO
'This War Made Him a Monster.' Ukrainian Women Fear the Return of Their Partners

As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, experts are warning that immediate action is needed to address rising domestic violence.

The Fuller Project
I wish infosec folks would spend more time talking about account recovery processes. Right now it feels like there’s a huge gap between “sms 1fa is fully sufficient for instant password reset” and “you own a yubikey so fuck you forever if you ever have a house fire”. And robust authentication protocols get subverted all the time by weak reset policies