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I am reminded of the infamous Sendmail worm from 1989(?). If this compromised OpenSSHd had become the default across millions of systems all over the world, co
by 1024core 3y ago
I am reminded of the infamous Sendmail worm from 1989(?).
If this compromised OpenSSHd had become the default across millions of systems all over the world, could a worm-like thing have brought a major chunk of the Internet down? Imagine millions of servers suddenly stuck in a boot-loop, refusing to boot.
And all because one owner of a library had some mental health issues. We should not have such SPOFs.
- dijit 3y ago> And all because one owner of a library had some mental health issues Wrong takeaway.
- juliusdavies 3y agoImpossible here because the exploit was carefully engineered to be unreplayable and NOBUS (nobody but us) so it couldn’t go viral. Even if you intercepted a complete tcp byte trace of the attack there was nothing you could do with that to attack other systems.
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