Oh please, dear? For your information, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
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Backdoors are bad for security ππ
Seriously. If you are going to do it, write in assembly or something else no one understands.
Aggressively writes a backdoor in COBOL
Tbh jia tan really wasn't lucky some mf at Microsoft noticed a 500ms delay in ssh. The backdoor was so incredibely clever and Well hidden and ingenious i almost feel bad for him lmao
the guy was even in microsoft he was at his house testing debian
A really good point I heard is: this was likely a state actor attack, so how many others just like this are out there, undiscovered?
Itβs scary to think aboutβ¦ a lot of people are now thinking about how we can best isolate our build test process so it works as a test suite but doesnβt have any way to interact with the output or environment.
Itβs just blows my mind to think of the levels of obfuscation this process used and how easy it would be to miss it.
Unpopular opinion: what if it was not a state actor and just some bored person somewhere that thought it would be cool to own a bot net?
What if this is just one of many backdoors and itβs just the only one we found?
Realistically I think it's probably easier to acquire a botnet of less secure systems. This was a targeted attack.
The design is Moriarty lvls of complex. State actor might be too specific, but everything but a group of people would be highly unlikely.
I heard that person actively contributed for something like 2 years, providing actually useful contributions, to gain the level of trust needed to plant that backdoor. Feels a bit too much to chalk it up to boredom.
As for the second part, that's an interesting question. Are there lots of backdoors and we just happened to notice this one, or are backdoors very rare exactly because we'd have found them out soon like in this case?
You'd be surprised what I manage with motivation and boredom.
You'd be surprised what a highly skilled ~~scalled~~ person can manage to achieve.
Boredom, Skills and Motivation are dangerous things to have if improperly handled.
highly scalled person
You might be on to something, it might have been the lizzard people!