Notices by Billy O'Neal (malwareminigun@infosec.exchange)

@cthos What happened with Framework?

@whitequark I like how this post is evergreen and applies to every OS

@vncresolver @catsalad hmmmm I've heard of honeypots but not furrypots

@0xabad1dea It's true that taking random dependencies without thought for how they are maintained is problematic but if anything npm gives you tools like lock files to at least get to repeatability and similar.

It's no different in any other system like apt or dnf etc.

@meowray "A binary heap where someone wanted to get 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝒸𝓎"

@prettygood The bell makes me think https://infosec.exchange/@jerry

@whitequark All in all, another brick in the https://xkcd.com/927/

@whitequark *Explosions and Fire bursts in with a tye die shirt on*

@whitequark Getting people to stop wanting the liberal democracy takes decades but there are certainly important inflection points where switches are thrown. The system that put DJT in power was democratic. Whether we can say that in 2026 is unfortunately in question :(

@whitequark It does say 2023.

@whitequark Please tell me it’s “Bull Shit Definition Language”

@GossiTheDog 4 day weekend? :O

I believe @GossiTheDog 's line here is "pass the bong"

@GossiTheDog of course if you just delete your profile then they can’t view it in China either

@ryanc except it’s a firewall broken if one ever sees a packet from the target….

@mcc @PeterSommerlad obligatory @lmanul https://goomics.net/62/

@lanodan sorry I don’t know why I said snap, I meant flatpak.

@lanodan If I make a snap package or similar I don't have to manage that, because my app comes with all its dependencies.

Similarly if my app is a bash script or I can statically link everything that matters.

Again, putting that into an rpm or deb does not fix the original argument, since that rpm or deb won't be signed by the distro. Installing malicious code through an rpm or deb is no different than installing malicious code through curl|sh.

If you require it to be signed by the distro, you are back in 'supporting Linux actually means supporting ~10 different platforms since there are ~5 distros that matter and their different versions are different universes'. This is a big part of why there's almost no commercial software on Linux.

@lanodan It isn't 'just deb/rpm', since any given deb/rpm often will not install unless it was produced on a matching distro, because the distros pick particular dependencies.

@lanodan so to ship my software I now need a paid contract with every distro every one of my customers use? That’s great.