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BlueHammer – Windows 0day LPE

asimops — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/BlueHammer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690767

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by asimops in "Migrating to the EU"

asimops — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:39:02 +0000

I know it is late, but for anyone reading this now, as I am:

Mailbox.org is completely ignoring DMARC since months... And their handling of the issue IMHO is incompetent at best.

See this thread (in German) https://userforum.mailbox.org/topic/10676-mailbox-org-akzept...

New comment by asimops in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

asimops — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:18:00 +0000

A secure OS is a prerequisite for secure digital services. We can agree on that, right?

The task, therefore, is to convince enough politicians to establish an independent unit that can address this issue without direct political influence.

Fund the unit with enough money so that it can take care of the cybersecurity and sovereignty of all citizens.

A side effect of this would hopefully be that these politicians would then be digitally literate enough to recognize nonsense such as chat control as such and reject it outright. I hope that most politicians would not really want such omnipotent surveillance tools if they could truly grasp their scope.

New comment by asimops in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

asimops — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:00:10 +0000

Germany requires ID for all SIMs (for "normal" people). You can buy activated SIMs in every bigger city if you know what to look for though.

New comment by asimops in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

asimops — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:57:02 +0000

In my opinion, the only solution while keeping Google and Apple as the developing entities is regulation.

Despite that, there are some things that should not be for profit in my opinion. A good OS platform is one such thing.

New comment by asimops in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

asimops — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:30:36 +0000

While it is technically feasible, it is not a good idea to try and find a technical solution to a people/organisation problem.

Do not accept the premise of assholes.

I hope we can get the EU to fund a truly open Android Fork. Maybe under some organisation similar to NL Labs.

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Furthermore, the need for a trustworthy binary to be auditable to a certain hash or something would make banning this a simple task if Google would want to go that route.

Interest Survey: Copilot for Exchange Server (On-Premises)

asimops — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/interest-survey-copilot-for-exchange-server-on-premises/4463515

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689510

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by asimops in "Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription"

asimops — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:24:50 +0000

The time to fight against this was when they pushed the first kind of this extortion services.

But do not accept it as a given now. The next best time to fight agains this is always now! Do not buys cars that are sold that way. If you have to buy a 'new' car, buy a used one that you can repair. Try to see this pattern in other products and avoid those too.

Talk about it with others while mentioning simple analogies like basfo did here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944155

And please, do not think that 'the market' could solve this. Once 'the market' sees adoption, it will follow suit. Only regulation can help with these issues.

Nothing is lost until we give up and accept that.

Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash

asimops — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:44:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/sad_end_of_bcachefs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44935917

Points: 11

# Comments: 5

New comment by asimops in "Upcoming coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations"

asimops — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:25:57 +0000

There is a blog post that captures this feelings very well in my opinion: Not being federated and E2E as an advantage https://blog.koehntopp.info/2025/06/17/no-federation-no-e2e....

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:41:45 +0000

Yes, that captures my intent :) Sadly, I cannot edit the post anymore.

New comment by asimops in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

asimops — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:15:57 +0000

Wow, that exploded over night :D It's nice to see, I am not alone.

With Android working on including a "desktop mode" where you can add a screen and HID devices, I sure hope that the phone screens will get smaller again.

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://smallandroidphone.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44586723

Points: 457

# Comments: 684

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:51:57 +0000

Might be one of those weirdos using an ad blocker ;)

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:36:19 +0000

I don't think the issue really stems from putty.org being there. It stems from a "trusted" third-party, the search engine, suggesting you the wrong place.

Therefore I think you are missing the point with your analogy.

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:31:49 +0000

Well, classic sender receiver mismatch I guess :D

Is my intent more clear with that second try to explain? If not, I'm more then welcome to talk about a better way to phrase it :)

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:23:09 +0000

IMHO neither of the two showed exactly nice behavior. But I don't think that this is particularly relevant.

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:21:08 +0000

This is definitely something that should be raised to the putty team. But with how the rest of the text is worded, I doubt that will change their mind.

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:42:13 +0000

As is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ to Putty.

Still there were multiple requests to the Keepass project to change that domain to "a proper" domain like keepass.com

New comment by asimops in "Hijacking Trust? Bitvise Under Fire for Controlling Domain of FOSS Project PuTTY"

asimops — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:26:16 +0000

I don't get it. The putty website has always been https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

This has never changed.

Just because someone likes to use short circuit routing in their head doesn't make putty.org the official site for putty.

That is the same attitude as telling the Keepass folks that https://keepass.info/ is wrong...

edit:

Maybe also have a look at the putty FAQ, especially 9.3

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#...