Sloppysoft or Microslop?

Debating which word to add to my lexicon this year.

It was probably planned as the Defiant class but the Dorito Dictator isn’t going to be happy until he’s named every single thing after himself.

See the reply thread just above this: https://lemmy.zip/comment/22938983

Exactly, it’s worse all around.

And it’s not like it’s hard to use a different configuration; the threshold and total number of keys are just parameters of the algorithm.

Assuming they were using threshold cryptography, they could have easily configured some redundancy into the system, e.g. by requiring 3 out of 5 people to decrypt it instead of 3 of 3.

It’s easy to blame the one guy for losing the key, but he could have gotten hit by a bus or lost the hard drive in a house fire and they would have been equally as screwed. This is more of a system design failure than a PEBKAC failure.

I know, after I posted that I was looking at their outages and worrying that my 1/month estimate too much of an exaggeration cause they hadn’t had a big one in a bit.

I wasn’t the original person that replied.

Could start with the fact that they go down about once a month now and take half the Internet with them.

If someone’s self-hosting, I’d be willing to bet they don’t have the same hardened config or isolation that a cloud provider would.

No. Docker containers aren’t a full sandbox. There’s a number of exploits that can break out of a container and gain root access to the host.

Prions and population collapse aside, your cannibal population would eventually succumb to simple nutrient deficiency as the human body can’t synthesize a number of essential vitamins and amino and fatty acids. Without any outside food sources, those nutrients would eventually be completely exhausted.

So if you’re going to start eating people, only eat people who have been a fed a diverse, nutrient-rich diet.

Having just left a job in the crypto space, the venn diagram of crypto bros and vibe coders is a single fucking circle.

These people hop from one hype train to the next like moths to a flame.

Nah fam she’s just setting herself up for her big divorce album so she can stay relevant to the older women.

Yeah, but the malware can just wait for a system upgrade where you sign a new boot image and slip itself in then.

It works for Windows because theoretically only Microsoft would have the signing key and it’s not just sitting on disk somewhere. But then you’re just trusting Microsoft, and also subject to vendor lock-in.

Actually, I would love for you to explain to me how Secure Boot alone would protect someone from any of that. If you want to protect files, you need full disk encryption, not Secure Boot.

Or are you seriously expecting a government-level threat actor to bother to:

1. Sneak into your home while you’re away or asleep;
2. Overwrite your bootloader or UEFI with a rootkitted image of the same version so it’s impossible to tell;
3. Wait for you to boot your computer and enter your disk encryption password, then:
4. Use the rootkit to read the decrypted files off your disk?

That’s the great thing about fascist governments, is they have no need to be that sneaky. They can just change the laws to make whatever you’re doing illegal and jail you until you agree to give up your documents, or simply hit you with a $5 wrench until you tell them the password.

For a home desktop that’s never left unattended with anyone untrustworthy, I don’t see that Secure Boot is worth the effort in setting up.

Given that you have to re-sign the boot image every time you upgrade, any malware already running with root privileges on the machine could easily slip itself into the new signed image.

The best security is not running untrusted software to begin with.

What a coincidence, I just watched the Scrubs episode with the Dr Toilet running gag.

I want to see someone build this so badly.

This guy did something in the same vein but tried to make a musical instrument instead: https://youtu.be/yFIxf2gTg_k

The human body is 70% water. The energy required to evaporate all that would wipe out anything you’d get from combusting the organic matter. And it’s not like they could leave them out back to dry out like seasoning firewood.

That means that somewhere among the stars are planets full of sexy alien babes.

Finally something to live for.