My tweets may be tainted with a touch of surlyness. I love to piont out you're typso's too. ;) recovering VB6 developer. Still regularly coding in VBA and VBS
@JenMsft Sometimes constraints CAN be a good thing. Remember windows development when MS put out guidance for their battleship grey windows forms with the File menu, Edit menu, help menu etc.? And then all of a sudden WPF came along and it was a free for all?
@Lord_Sugar it isn’t a micro fiche reader. It is a projector that projects clear plastic sheets onto a screen. Micro fiche are documents that have been photographed and shrunk down onto a tape.
When Andres Freund, Linux kernel contributor & Microsoft engineer was debugging slow SSH logins on his Debian machine in March 2024, he noticed something weird:
liblzma (part of XZ Utils) was using way too much CPU power, so he kept digging, and what he uncovered was a multi-year supply-chain attack!
An attacker using the name “Jia Tan” had spent two years slowly infiltrating the tiny XZ Utils project, a compression library used by virtually every major Linux distribution.
The backdoor wasn’t in the source code. It was hidden deep inside the build scripts. It would have given the attacker remote root access on millions of servers the moment a specially crafted SSH key was used.
Freund caught it days before it would have shipped in Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and more.
One man, one anomaly, one routine debug session saved the internet from a potential catastrophe.
Respect!