Notices by The Penguin of Evil (etchedpixels@mastodon.social), page 3

@drwho @bval @hailey Security is easier, if they want a CLA you just post the exploit and fix publically then put the popcorn in the microwave.

@GossiTheDog Let me ask a different but important bit of the question. What's the difference. Wiping a server or blowing it to bits have the same effect. Taking out a power station by destroying the control systems electronically or by dropping wire wool on it has the same effect ? Is an attack that causes a control system to physically detonate a device physical or cyber-attack.

I don't think viewing them as two worlds works. If anything they are parts of one attacking system.

@Migueldeicaza
- Have you turned it off and on again ?
- Has it only happened once and have you tried a few more times
- Weird, it's working here
- I've tried the sequence you describe and it all looks good
- I'll escalate it

(Crickets...)

@nixCraft Neighbour bought an HP printer, fortunately she couldn't get it working so asked for help and I was in time to get her to send it back and buy a Brother. That not only works out of the box it will take other ink if needed.

HP of old is long gone. Even a decade ago I had some PA-RISC hardware to return and I asked HP and nobody in HP even knew what PA-RISC was let alone how to return them, so I stuck em in a box and parcelforced them to a random HP office

People are surprised when they find out I am anti-vax, but I'm sorry the Sun3 was just a better machine.

@BethanyBlack Storm BP Storm Esso Storm Exxon ... much better naming scheme

I despair at trying to get people to apply the minimum level of common sense and #security to software. I've done simple exploits for a whole load of cpu simulator call outs and people have fixed the fact that the code you downloaded can use emulator callouts to open /proc/self/mem and edit the emulation environment, or write curl/chmod/execute sequences into .profile but this is the first lot who seem to think "so don't simulate untrusted code" is a good plan.

https://github.com/cc65/cc65/issues/1518