I sometimes wear a bracelet for good luck to our conferences. We just wrapped up B2B Finance Expo in Las Vegas. Next up is deBanked CONNECT in Miami Beach.
I mean at this point 99% of server bandwidth is being hogged up by AI scrapers and when you block the AI scrapers, they just come up with trickier ways to keep scraping. Arrest them all
Seán Murray retweeted
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
Largest credit goes to @lcfr_hax for the earliest recent discovery of the bug class.
This underlying engine issue was so wide it invited a lot of parallel discovery. As we coordinated our findings the scope of the problem continued to expand!
Let’s set the record straight: @lcfr_hax was the first to discover php2shell and develop a working exploit. See his August 5 tweet: xitter.cf/lcfr_hax/status/208503…
His work convinced the PHP Foundation to invest in fixing this entire bug class. He then worked around the clock to review, test, and retest the patches.
If you’ve gotten your fill at Money2020 and are wondering “what else is there?” come pop into The Cosmopolitan tomorrow and Wednesday for B2B Finance Expo
Some websites have so many popup disclosures about cookies and whatnot that using an AI agent just makes more sense to not have to deal with all that
Seán Murray retweeted
2024: Google sends you a lot of traffic
2025: Google sends you less traffic
2026: Google only cites you in AI answers
2027: Google never calls, but sends a Christmas card
2028: You bump into Google at a party and it pretends not to know you
so is this useful at all?
not really. but we can now confirm with certainty that the executable people downloaded matches satoshi's published source code exactly 😄
some other archeological fun facts:
- satoshi used windows xp with mingw
- he upgraded binutils halfway through the project
- he shipped a debug build, but turned on max optimization for one file: the hashing used for mining
- the exe everyone calls v0.1.0 is actually v0.1.1 and was compiled two days after satoshi announced v0.1. the original launch-day binary seems to be lost
github.com/t4t5/bitcoin-0.1-…
A lot of the cypherpunks (and Satoshi suspects) were prolific editors of wikis (including on Wikipedia) and most did nothing to obscure their IPs when making the changes. Their IPs at points in time are forever recorded and downloadable.
Meanwhile, Satoshi's IP was revealed on January 10, 2009 in an IRC log that Hal Finney shared. Satoshi was using a dynamic Covad IP in the Greater Los Angeles area. (h-68-164-57-219.lsanca54.dynamic.covad. net ). All the Covad Los Angeles IP ranges from that time period are discoverable to this day, which means you can look to see what these IP ranges were editing on wikis and then narrow it down to just the keywords that cypherpunks were known to edit.
If Satoshi edited a wiki from a Covad Los Angeles IP, even once, you can compare it to the keywords the individual cypherpunks edited and see if there's a match.
This process can be sped up with AI.
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Roadster's will be available in 2028 per Elon. You're telling me consumers will be able to drive something that does this on the street?
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