(pushes glasses up on nose)

ACTUALLY that's just RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY after all back in the days of the dinosaurs the days were shorter because the moon was closer that's just ANGULAR MOMENTUM pffffft

https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/earth-will-spin-faster-on-july-22-to-create-2nd-shortest-day-in-history

🆕 blog! “Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux”

For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport.

I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics.

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/reading-nfc-passport-chips-in-linux/
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#CyberSecurity #hacking #linux #nfc #rfid

https://github.com/ubuntu/authd/security/advisories/GHSA-g8qw-mgjx-rwjr

When a user who hasn't logged in to the system before (i.e. doesn't exist in the authd user database) logs in via SSH, the user is considered a member of the root group in the context of the SSH session. That leads to a local privilege escalation if the user should not have root privileges.