The Doctor

Gee. What a surprise.

No.

So it factored a trivial (22 bit) RSA key.

1024-bit RSA has been deprecated for years. 2048-bit RSA is the recommended minimum.

Interesting. Not quite worrisome.

Here you go: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/files/wc-202458160402.pdf

There’s always money to be made in hurting people. It’s part of the human condition.

They’re making way more out of hurting people than they are off of us.

They’re making bank off of it. Next question.

I feel you there… :/

So, blaming the victim.

GPT: Because nobody in their right mind would waste nukes destroying the Internet.

You don’t say.

Is it bad that I keep wondering if one of the big book publishers bought a DDoS from somebody’s botnet?

That lawsuit was a long time in coming. Covid just goosed the schedule forward about a year, and probably made it easier.

Of course it will.

And I agree with you.

The number of people who actually change their default settings is quite small. Those of us who have these discussions are a distinct minority in the sum userbase.

They laid off 2/3 of their QA team. No wonder.

Some of the bigger publishers were okay with it for a month or so. It smelled like a setup then, still smells like a setup.

Naomi Wu was right.

If you look at it from the perspective of “we are not allowed to have nice things, power is the only thing that matters,” it not only makes sense it’s predictable.

Edit: “victus haze”

“defeated haze”

Somewhat misused Latin? On point.

Descriptive of what is likely to happen? Also on point. .gov never disappoints.