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   Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 00:35:07 JST Rob Landley

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   Here's an article from 2018 where somebody talked about the issue:

   https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mirai-iot-malware-uses-aboriginal-linux-to-target-multiple-platforms/

   I ship open source hammers. I can't stop people on the other side of the planet from hitting each other with the hammers. Dreamhost took down landley.net because in landley.net/hammers it detected Presence Of Hammer.

   I am so tired.

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     Rob Landley (landley@mstdn.jp)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 00:35:08 JST Rob Landley

     And dreamhost took landley.net down because they scanned it and identified one of my compiler release tarballs as a virus.

     Because virus authors have been using my old compiler releases to build their stuff with for YEARS, and gnu nonsense copies the /home/landley host path where the compiler was built into binaries generated with that compiler, because gnu.

     Sigh, probably this one:

     https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploit+against+Unnamed+Bytevalue+router+vulnerability+included+in+Mirai+Bot/30642

     I miss when people could just google for stuff and become informed.