aim had a buffer overflow in it as part of its protocol! wild stuff
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/
Chat Wars | David Auerbach
In the summer of 1998 I graduated from college and went to work as a programmer at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I was put on the group that was building MSN Messenger Service, Microsoft’s instant messaging app. The terrible name came from Marketing, which had become something of a joke for always picking the clunkiest and least imaginative product names. Buddy List? C U C Me? MSN Messenger? No, MSN Messenger Service. I’ll call it Messenger for short.
Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure with living-off-the-land techniques | Microsoft Security Blog
Microsoft has uncovered stealthy malicious activity by Volt Typhoon focused on post-compromise credential access & network system discovery.
the yelp reviews for the United States Government are surprisingly good
this is a sketchy looking legit email
why did no one tell me about this
@signalapp feature?!
TIL that money has a status page
you win this round, ChatGPT
your thanksgiving factoid: they’re called brussels sprouts, NOT brussel sprouts
truer works have never been spoken
I, for one, look forward to the release of gubernetes
https://mastodon.cloud/media/ZjSwL-A3XNRGb4u1rwk
