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It’s the ISP cutting the Ethernet by opposing net neutrality so they can force you to use their overpriced cable TV service. An inverted mockery of the traditional “cord cutting”, just as the image depicts.

The thing exact thing Squid Game is satirizing resembles Squid Game? I’m shocked.

I'm of the opinion that not every company needs to expand indefinitely. Most things should probably just stay at a sustainable level.

how is it an experiment to restore things to the way they used to be? pretty sure we already know how it works out.

I imagine if this attacker wasn't in a rush to get the backdoor into the upcoming Debian and Fedora stable releases he would have been able to notice and correct the increased CPU usage tell and remain undetected.

I think ideas about prevention should be more concerned with the social engineering aspect of this attack. The code itself is certainly cleverly hidden, but any bad actor who gains the kind of access as Jia did could likely pull off something similar without duplicating their specific method or technique.

as long as you're up to date on everything here: https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

the only additional thing i've seen noted is a possibilty that they were using Arch based on investigation of the tarball that they provided to distro maintainers

i also remember having the cube around the same time in OSX somehow but I forget the method

Non invasive BCI capable of the exact stuff neuralink has demonstrated has existed for a while and its probably a much more viable way to help the disabled than cramming chips into their head.

There certainly is a history of attacking Apple over their use of encryption. I wonder if they're still mad they didn't get that iPhone backdoor they wanted.

In fairness I may be mistaken. It seems ISPs were extended common carrier protections in relation to hosting Usenet and email and I conflated that with the protocols themselves. Either way it was a long time ago and I doubt they’d extend those protections to generic web platforms these days, but I’d sure like someone to set a precedent for it.

I don’t think comparing a federated message board to smuggling drugs is as fair a comparison as say email or Usenet, also federated services which have both been granted common carrier in the past, but go off I guess.