Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052755

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

This is almost certainly Windows performing certificate validation.

The "evidence" was just copy pasted from VirusTotal. In fact he forgot to copy from below the cut, which would have shown it also called out to www.microsoft.com - depending who you ask, definitely a malicious address!

VirusTotal just notes all network traffic during the time the binary executed in the sandbox. It doesn't mean it emanated from the binary.

The scary IPs are part of DigiCert's CDN for OCSP responder (probably depending where you are and their anycast):

https://github.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list/issues/452

The "evidence" is the system made some network calls and DNS lookups. Which you know, you would do when validating a certificate. He also lists some SMB calls to the localnet which are clearly unrelated. tee.c source contains no network code so this would be truly easy to audit. So tell me again what is the damning evidence?

Also, are we to believe malware gangs are hosting on Akamai now? They must be in the major leagues.

And you call me an idiot?

Have a nice day.

You can't use a screwdriver handle as a hammer then complain it doesn't work to your expectations.

No need for hyperbolics, just say you don't know.

The built in Windows Firewall does this. No need to pay for a 3rd party magic app.

Laud praise on Little Snitch all you want but Windows could quietly do this out of the box for two decades.

25 years ago we used ZoneAlarm and a variety of other tools.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004124

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Maybe if submitters see something was already submitted 800 times, they'll get the message; though, I have my doubts.

Hard to hold a discussion when everyone is arguing in bad faith.

So, like every private sector job nowadays?

Everyone is acting like this is the first time in history someone's been called into a meeting with a ponytailed 25 year old to have the "What is it ya do here?" discussion.

Memorialized in a movie so old now that most zoomers haven't even heard of it, let alone seen it. Only the Bobs have now been replaced with 'Skylar'.

Meanwhile the EU bathes in the same Chinese garbage imported by the boat-load as long as it carries the CE mark, which they are allowed to self-certify in nearly every case, making it meaningless.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985111

Points: 11

# Comments: 10

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