We've been thinking about a lot about the language design of expressing lifetime restrictions and dependencies for non-escapable types in Swift, and I put all that into a long and somewhat rambling design paper which folks might find interesting.

https://forums.swift.org/t/a-possible-type-based-model-for-scope-restrictions-on-escapable-types/88856

@internetarchive "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

Related to the network incident, I rediscovered the masterpiece called xbill.

Why don't we have similar memes with Altman, Amodei & co.,?

To follow-up on my #DistributedComputing quest, these kinds of articles tickle my brain just the right way:

A Brief Tour of FLP Impossibility
https://www.the-paper-trail.org/post/2008-08-13-a-brief-tour-of-flp-impossibility/

On the other hand how the Hell do I turn off dark mode so I can actually read the keywords?!?! I'm not educated enough for this much computering!

I had a network issue.

It *was* DNS.

I *can't* say it was #systemd, as it turned out that two-beers-too-much me plugged a cable to the wrong port.

I *can* say though that I could've debugged the issue much faster if systemd gave me any meaningful logs :P

New (public) exploit broker

https://www.mintelx.com/mintelx-exploit-acquisition-program

#exploitdev #exploit #exploitbroker

Our friendly periodic reminder that we need your cat-and-music-gear pictures! Please include your cat's name 😻🎹
#CatsOfMastodon

felt sexy, might delete later

#tag1 #tag2

The articles already published in the Exploiting Reversing series (ERS) are now hosted on a new website:

https://blackstormsecurity.com/research/

Future articles will be published primarily at this new address, and for a time, I will also publish them on my personal blog.

The series will continue with many more articles, which some are coming soon. Stay tuned.

Have an excellent day.

#exploit #vulnerability

Authentication bypass in EOL Proxmox VE 7 release https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-virtual-environment-security-advisories.149331/page-4#post-867929

A while ago I asked for recommendations about books on #DistributedComputing.

While far from a book, this summary provides a lot of really useful pointers to follow:

https://ferd.ca/a-distributed-systems-reading-list.html

Hear me out: Pimp my own Printer!

I need sticker ideas!

#PMOP #PMOD

A cyberattack last week disrupted medical technology maker Boston Scientific's global operations, affecting remote monitoring capabilities of some of its new cardiac devices.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/hack-hindering-boston-scientific-cardiac-device-monitoring-a-32688

ロゴ案 #WildCardBoy

After HardBrEacher, a zero-day in the Kaspersky EDR, Nightmare Eclipse has also published zero-days in Nvidia drivers (GreenSection) and the Avast antivirus (PrettyPrague)

https://github.com/MSNightmare/HardBreacher

https://github.com/MSNightmare/GreenSection

https://github.com/MSNightmare/PrettyPrague

[RSS] OEMpocalypse Now

https://blog.calif.io/p/oempocalypse-now

#android #llm

[RSS] Don't Let Abliteration Abliterate Your Bug Hunting: Discovering Verdict Bias in Uncensored Models

https://clearbluejar.github.io/posts/does-abliteration-skew-your-bug-hunting/

#Microsoft asks users to ignore ' #Antivirus is turned off ' errors

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-asks-users-to-ignore-antivirus-is-turned-off-errors/

#cybersecurity #Windows

"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain at All."