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Now this is some nice reverse engineering

"enhancer"

a pretty good article in how they disassembled the tamper-proof device

We believe this is lawful interception Hetzner and Linode were forced to setup.

Another win for us adblock users

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The previously unknown vulnerability, which is tracked as CVE-2023-20198, carries the maximum severity rating of 10. It resides in the Web User Interface of Cisco IOS XE software when exposed to the Internet or untrusted networks. Any switch, router, or wireless LAN controller running IOS XE that has the HTTP or HTTPS Server feature enabled and exposed to the Internet is vulnerable. At the time this post went live, the Shodan search engine showed that as many as 80,000 Internet-connected devices could be affected.

In a certain month of 2013, during an in-depth forensic investigation of a host in a key domestic department, researchers from the Pangu Lab extracted a set of advanced backdoors on the Linux platform, which used advanced covert channel behavior based on TCP SYN packets, code obfuscation, system hiding, and self-destruction design

Absolute joke. Emphasis is mine:

... protected by a TPM and recovered automatically only by early boot software that is authorised to access the data

later on in the article it talks about how the packages are now going to be supplied:

Namely, the bootloader (shim and GRUB) and kernel assets will be delivered as snap packages (via gadget and kernel snaps), as opposed to being delivered as Debian packages. As such, it is the Snapd agent which will be responsible for managing full disk encryption throughout its lifecycle.

Looks like snap will be the future for Ubuntu

I guess it could be worse, chromium could be used everywhere...

I guess it could be worse...

Wow Microsoft. You actually suck.