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The people who are crashing their 600HP Linux systems are, unfortunately, not the ones who are reading CVE listings in their spare time. Canonical and other distros are probably go…

Likely no good reason. But he seemed to have identified many many systems that were, inexplicably, exposing port 631 to the internet. There is some reason people are doing it and, …

This is the worry. It seems like a really unnecessary privilege escalation.

I guess the important question is whether or not these things are blocked by default or require user intervention to disable cups? Sure, many of us block all ports by default and e…

I don't know if I would say it's a nothing burger, but i don't see how it affects important servers. It might impact a number of linux desktops and, if they are linked to important…

This is entertaining reading. Although I don't know how pervasive this issue is, from the chunk i have read so far I can see why he was concerned that it was relatively trivial to …

How does an attacker exploit this vulnerability? - An attacker can exploit this vulnerability if it can connect to the host via UDP port 631, which is by default bound to INADDR_AN…

https://gist.github.com/stong/c8847ef27910ae344a7b5408d9840e... Original report Affected Vendor: - OpenPrinting Affected Product - Several components of the CUPS printing system: c…

From an eating-popcorn perspective, I would find it truly entertaining that a printer package could somehow result in a 9.9 security vulnerability that is somehow worse than heartb…

Ukraine is (and will continue to be for decades) a fascinating case study for multiple reasons, but most impressively regarding NATO support. Although headlines detail billions upo…

I think the Chinese perspectives of how a war against Taiwan might proceed was dramatically altered after watching Russia get slapped around by Ukraine. I'm convinced it delayed an…

Indeed, although because I heavily utilized Docker I also ended up using UFW-Docker. It was fairly straightforward to incorporate into my startup scripts. https://github.com/chaife…

I was brand new to managing an Ubuntu Hetzner server and the moment I saw how many port 22 scans the server received i decided to try changing the port number, followed by key-only…

You're a legend, thanks for posting that.

Just opened the Play store and there are numerous Harmony apps. Could you provide a link, please?

Judging by the declaration of war against Ukraine by Russia, it appears an underappreciated aspect of the equation is equal measures of senility and insanity.

This kind of reminds me of when the Concorde first started flying and technically could cancel IFR flight and proceed under visual flight rules over the atlantic because it was abo…

In many ways its no different than electronic musicians building songs based on short samples of older songs. I have no doubt there will be rulings supporting the sort of creativit…

Some people obviously prefer the old days when security problems were hidden within proprietary code so the only people who knew about them were the ones who found the exploit.

If water was priced appropriately it would incentivize hydroponics that captures and recirculates waste water to minimize usage.