Notices by Bill (sempf@infosec.exchange)

I'm dense, I know, but I fail to see what is so bad about Rust that we have to patch C in protest!

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/rusthaters_unite_filc/

#rustlang #programming

RIP Thomas Kurtz, cocreator of BASIC.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/

#programming

h/t @Gabrielle

@horse @stinerman He is a sunk cost. He's not good

🏈 When do y'all think the Browns are gonna figure out that Watson is just not good?

@stinerman But he isn't.

@emarktaylor @cfb Everything is all topsy turvy. We knew the end of the season was gonna be weird, but week 2?

@horse @Lee_Holmes This is the stuff I come to the Internet for on a Saturday afternoon.

@horse @Viss @catsalad Yes.

Anyone played with this MS IPv6 bug POC? I don't know a lot about the network stack, being mostly a web guy, but the code is nice and elegant.

https://github.com/ynwarcs/CVE-2024-38063/tree/main

#microsoft #poc

Sitting here being pissy about government overreach and I muttered to myself:

"The government can outlaw as much encryption as they want, if the bad guys have two coins and a pencil, they can make as much unbreakable encryption as they want with a one-time pad."

I wondered where I got that line, so I searched it, and I didn't know six years ago when I said it, either.

https://sempf.net/post/application-security-weekly-for-may-6

#policy #encryption

@catsalad

@BeAware Yeah, I haven't heard of anything either, but often the issues arise where no one knows to look, ya know what I mean?

@BeAware Well, no I'm not suggesting it is SUPPSED to be that way. I'm just thinking, as a dev, that would be an authorization that would have to be specially written for that one feature, and it could be messed up. That's all.

Has anyone done any vulnerability assessment to determine if the Personal Note you can leave for an account might be accidentally visible to the referred user? #mastodon

@horse I'll have you call my customer.

@horse @briankrebs @catsalad @thepacketrat Well, are you?

@horse Aww bro, ya see, I live in the woods. We go nuclear.

@horse Have you had smoked cream cheese?

@horse It'll be fiiiiiine.