The Doctor

That’s Craig, all right. He’s a big believer in “If I do anything with enough confidence nobody will stop me.”

Yeah, that’s Craig. With a heaping side of spite for anything that breathes oxygen.

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.

So, blaming the victim.

Google pulled it off with GChat. All told, those of us who run our own XMPP servers aren’t even a rounding error when compared to everybody who uses Google Chat, FB Chat, Slack…

Interoperate with it. Add proprietary extensions faster than other implementations can keep up with (at least two orders of mag). Render software that isn’t yours unusable by suddenly cutting over to something else internally; let connection attempts continue for a while to frustrate users while simultaneously releasing your own. Then cut away all points where legacy connection attempts could be done.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.

And make sure they hear about it in such a way that it seems interesting. The fediverse doesn’t use any basic marketing plan techniques, and enough people are conditioned to them (after a lifetime of growing up surrounded by advertising on television and in their spaces) that anything which doesn’t fit that template scoots right by.

Power cells are batteries. I keep forgetting that not everybody’s worked for Ultium Cells.

Unless somebody specifically installs an explosive charge in a device, it’s highly unlikely that modern power cells will detonate. If you want to get technical about it, they’re incendiaries. They don’t explode, they burn vigorously.

There are still a bunch of torrents being seeded out there.

Working on open source software was one of the things they used against Aaron Swartz.

Think of the stock prices!

It wouldn’t surprise me if somebody tried to get such a thing passed in a couple of years.

And those half-assed laws make great pretext laws.

“That guy has a 3d printer! He might be fabbing ghost guns!”