September 2, 2022

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This story is great. There is a stolen pagan ring, a curse tablet, and JRR Tolkien.

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CloudFlare are, for some unknown reason, choosing to die on the KiwiFarms hill. Maybe Cloudflare wouldn’t have dropped Switter if they had pivoted from supporting sex workers to encouraging neo nazis?

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Usenix archive is free.

https://www.usenix.org/conferences/past

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This is awesome. YandexTaxi was hacked and all the taxis sent to one location, causing a huge traffic jam. See my supplemental post for more.

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Insanity of EVE’s architecture.

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Automatic execution of code upon package download from pypi.

If you run pip install , you know that setup.py will be run. The finding is that if you run pip download then setup.py is also run. You’ve probably never even seen pip download, so I guess just to be on the safe side, continue not using that command.

https://medium.com/checkmarx-security/automatic-execution-of-code-upon-package-download-on-python-package-manager-cd6ed9e366a8

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