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Offline Matthew

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How the Internet came close to Disaster
« on: Yesterday at 12:11:39 PM »
Makes you want to top off your preps and make sure you have gardening equipment, food and water stored up, solar panels, etc.

One meticulous German software engineer noticed a 1/2 second delay logging, and discovered the doomsday backdoor.

God wasn't ready to start the Chastisement yet. Just goes to show you, how everything is in His hands.

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Offline MaterDominici

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Re: How the Internet came close to Disaster
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 04:14:24 PM »
What I found most crazy about this is that the open source community is so "free" that they have no requirement that you actually prove who you are before gaining access to modify code that might be used with some very sensitive data. So, they "catch" the guy before he's successful, but still have no idea who he is.
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Offline Boomerang

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Re: How the Internet came close to Disaster
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 07:09:46 PM »
In His Mercy God has prevented world-wide calamity a few times, whether digital or nuclear. Reading some of the close calls during the Cold War, one wonders what was going on in the minds of these men to keep them reasonable despite the pressure from those around them.
E.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov <- Refused to launch a nuclear torpedo at the US fleet during the Cuban Missile Crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
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Offline Boomerang

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Re: How the Internet came close to Disaster
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 07:14:21 PM »
Quote from: Matthew on Yesterday at 12:11:39 PM
One meticulous German software engineer noticed a 1/2 second delay logging, and discovered the doomsday backdoor.

Also IMO, best to be minimally dependent on software these days, Windows 11 etc. seems to be just code heaped upon code, and while some bugs disappear, others appear.

The attitude of just throwing more/better hardware resources at software problems is just kicking the can of refactoring code down the road.

Linux can run on a Raspberry Pi, but a PC that could run XP can't run Windows 11 (not to mention the increasing online connectivity in Windows features).
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Offline AnthonyPadua

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Re: How the Internet came close to Disaster
« Reply #4 on: Today at 01:45:57 AM »
Quote from: Matthew on Yesterday at 12:11:39 PM
Makes you want to top off your preps and make sure you have gardening equipment, food and water stored up, solar panels, etc.

One meticulous German software engineer noticed a 1/2 second delay logging, and discovered the doomsday backdoor.

God wasn't ready to start the Chastisement yet. Just goes to show you, how everything is in His hands.


Oh I remember this from a few years ago, such a close call, German autism saves the day again haha, imagine if the attacker was Jєωιѕн, it would be really ironic. Thank God, this could have been extremely extremely bad.
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