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Micrologs

2020-06-09

Experimenting with the idea that instead of the massive timesink that is microblogging, I can round up all my links and random thoughts and pop them on here from time to time...

Legacy LVFS S3 bucket takeover and CVE-2020-10759 fwupd signature verification bypass

A super detailed writeup on attacking legacy (but running) versions of fwupd. Goes to show, you should hold on to your S3 buckets...

[PDF] James Mickens - The Night Watch

Still my favourite article on systems programming. I'm surprised that this is only from 2013, people have been quoting "I'VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS" for so long.

[YouTube] Internet Explorer - Anime Festival Asia Special Video

Speaking of 2013, I don't think it should be forgotten that Microsoft Singapore once made an anime video starring an Internet Explorer-tan.

One of the fun parts of self-hosting a Gemini server is reading the log with all the wacky malformed requests coming in. People really are building their own clients, making mistakes and playing around. Nice.

Good work whoever is causing 404 errors on my webserver with GET requests that appear to contain complete FTP credentials for an overseas educational institution...?

The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms

So many meters and knobs...

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