Mike Shewardpeople are saying the xz backdoor is likely the work of a nation state actor, and given that it appears to been slow rolled for a couple of years and immediately became obsolete before it was fully launched - you do have to admit it bears the hallmarks of a government IT project
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evacideSecurity researchers presenting at CCC break down Triangulation, and it’s full of juicy tidbits: https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-the-last-hardware-mystery/111669/
Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery
Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass this hardware-based security protection, the attackers used another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs.
Cory DoctorowOh shit, Christmas came early this year!
#Interoperability, #Privacy, & #Security https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/12/interoperability-privacy-security
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Inside: An Epic antitrust loss for Google; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/12/im-feeling-lucky/
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Tim BraySignal Foundation Financials: https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2023/12/08/signal-foundation-financials/
Troubling.
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daniel:// stenberg://How the first gen ipod was reverse engineered to run #Rockbox:
1. Someone figured out that when loading a particular HTML page (for viewing on the device), the device would reboot. It crashed. A buffer overflow in the HTML viewer!
2. The device remembered what it did before the crash, so it would reload the HTML page again after boot. Unless you connected to it over USB and removed the HTML file it would stick in this cycle.
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Christopher Mimscan’t stop thinking about this toot
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