June 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Robert Hettinga RIP
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

A fool and his reputation-capital are soon parted ( old proverb ) >>>> ProgressiveTex ·11h Sidney Powell has been disbarred by the State of Texas. The Kraken has been released. <<<< Reposts etc

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New Hertzbleed Side-Channel Attack Affects All Modern AMD and Intel CPUs
by jim bell 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/06/new-hertzbleed-side-channel-attack.html "A newly discovered security vulnerability in modern Intel and AMD processors could let remote attackers steal encryption keys via a power side channel attack. "Dubbed Hertzbleed by a group of researchers from the University of Texas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Washington, the issue is rooted in dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), power and thermal management feature employed to conserve power and reduce the amount of heat generated by a chip. "The cause is that, under certain circumstances, periodic CPU frequency adjustments depend on the current CPU power consumption, and these adjustments directly translate to execution time differences (as 1 hertz = 1 cycle per second)," the researchers said.

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Chinese hackers attack sophos
by jim bell 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/06/chinese-hackers-exploited-sophos.html " sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos' firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an unnamed South Asian target as part of a highly-targeted attack. "The attacker implement[ed] an interesting web shell backdoor, create[d] a secondary form of persistence, and ultimately launch[ed] attacks against the customer's staff," Volexity said in a report. "These attacks aimed to further breach cloud-hosted web servers hosting the organization's public-facing websites." The zero-day flaw in question is tracked as CVE-2022-1040 (CVSS score: 9.8), and concerns an authentication bypass vulnerability that can be weaponized to execute arbitrary code remotely. It affects Sophos Firewall versions 18.5 MR3 (18.5.3) and earlier."

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Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk sued by dogecoin investor for $258 billion
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

And in related news . . . Elon Musk's SpaceX fires employees following critical letter outlining Musk's public behaviour https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-18/spacex-elon-musk-fires-small-group-b… Reposts etc

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Vladimir Putin last night heralded a “new world order” - this phrase was also used by Karl Marx in his 1844 Manuscripts.
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/vladimir-putin-heralds-new-world-order… Reposts not endorsements

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CIA plans to assassinate registered journalist
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

London hasn't seen anything like this since, well . . . the killing of Simon Ross https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/assassination-bid-part-of-assange-ap… Reposts not cleared for NSA Blackfriar

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Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk sued by dogecoin investor for $258 billion
by Gunnar Larson 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-spacex-musk-sued-dogecoin-205916838.h…

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Blockchain & Metaverse: Why All the Hype? Event Follow-Up
by Gunnar Larson 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

https://inatba.org/news/blockchain-metaverse-why-all-the-hype-event-follow-…

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Anarchists for the pro-choice rioters act
by professor rat 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

Beswick argues that it was the creation of a mass, militant movement that centered bodily autonomy and freedom that forced the State to codify limited abortion rights into law. . . " https://anarchistnews.org/content/lessons-fight-protect-abortion-clinics-19… Reposts etc

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[ot][fiction][crazy] Weird Bug Hotline
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

I need a weird bug hotline (tail of https://m.xkcd.com/2633/ ). Here goes. Intern: "Hi, Weird Bug Hotline. Is it currently biting you?" Callee: "Omigod, I am so happy you picked up. My code raised a corrupt exception, and when the exception handler caught it my mouse came alive and wrapped itself around my neck, it grabs my arms when I try to unplug it, I can't escape, I don't know what to do !" Intern: "Stay calm. You're still planning on storing a core dump of the corrupt exception, aren't you?" Callee: "Is that bad?" Intern: "Calm down, don't think about your core dump, don't think about how the exception handler doesn't have any access to the USB hub the mouse is connected to, just imagine everything is normal. Think about how happy your boss will be when you find an approach that doesn't raise exceptions." Callee: "I don't have a --- oh, the mouse is releasing me a little! -- I unplugged it! I'm safe! You saved me!"

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