Perception Point today publicly disclosed a vulnerability in the way Linux kernels from 2012's version 3.8 and later handle keys (archived).
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Fiat Market Slide, fiat/Bitcoin Interfaces Follow In Friday Trading
Water Quality Crisis In United States Lake Region
In the impoverished United States province of Michigan, the post industrial hell hole commonly referred to as "Flint" is going through a water quality crisis. Dangerous levels of lead, iron, and other metals had been detected in Flint's municipal for months, and now there are concerns that Flint's water problems are contributing to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (archived). Outbreaks of disease caused by Legionella bacteria have been increasing across the United State with deteriorating healthcare facilities most frequently being affected. The Flint outbreak is exceptional in the size geographic area apparently being affected. Travellers to the United States would be prudent to avoid drinking tap water that has not been further purified at the point of consumption. Much of Michigan is surrounded by the Earth's largest system of freshwater lakes.
OpenSSH Client Bug Leaks Memory Contents
A newly revealed bug in the OpenSSH client from versions 5.4 through 7.1 allows memory contents to be read by malicious servers (archived). The vulnerability exists in code that allows "roaming" which was added to the OpenSSH client but not the OpenSSH server. Patches which remove the roaming code from the OpenSSH client are available.
Mining Difficulty Already Up 9.12% This Year
While pundits seek alpha amid omega, fiat flows on towards its only good use: subsidizing Bitcoin mining. The new difficulty of 113,354,299,801.4711`3037 (a 9.12% increase over the 2015 close) pushes hashpower estimates over 850 PH/s, placing what nobody could've predicted merely 17.6% away (readily attainable in a single leap, should miners quit dicking about and resume their one fucking job).
Europol Claims DD4BC Action
Europol is claiming one arrest and several other detentions in relation to the long running DD4BC group (archived). DD4BC began their career by utilizing denial of service extortion attacks against various Bitcoin properties before moving on to extort various fiat interests in the last year.
Gavin and Toomim Present: "Classic" – Another Hard Fork Risk
Intel Skylake Brings Optimized #ROWHAMMER Exploit
In spite of marketing that Intel's latest Skylake family of chips would be more resistant to the Rowhammer exploit through use of DDR4 memory, it has come out that not only does Rowhammer survive (archived), exploiting it is more optimizable than ever (archived) thanks to the new clflushopt instruction. Remember to watch your bits and be selective in the code and hardware you choose to run.
Reference Client Patch Bans Bloom Filter Parasites
Today asciilifeform of No Such lAbs offered for review a patch to the reference Bitcoin Client that spares full node operators the burden of having to handle connections from parasitic SPV clients making Bloom filter requests. This complements other recent work on the reference Bitcoin client to promote communion among Bitcoin full nodes absent distractions presented by various things that are not other full nodes. When a node running this patch receives a bloom filter request the debug.log entry looks like: Continue reading
USG Makes Tired Sheriff Face Of Oregon Operations
So Tired
As the Oregon liberation continues to hold, the United States Government has made one very tired local Sheriff the face of its efforts to recapture the liberated outpost. Harney County Sheriff David Ward, who normally presides over a force of locally forced six is now the public face of the combined government effort lead by Federal Force IV.1
As the face of Federal reclamation efforts Ward has had to balance the competing demands of meeting with Oregon liberators as a representative of the United States Government, vacillating between promises of free passage and criminal charges, and keeping local residents in a state of panic by closing local schools and businesses. Meanwhile mainstream leftist publications are criticising him for utilizing polite manners when meeting with the leadership of a formidable armed force instead of suicidally attempting to arrest or shoot the entire liberating militia force himself. All of this attention and these new responsibilities appear to be taking a substantial toll on Ward's sleep hygiene.
Completely absent from reporting in mainstream outlets loyal to the United States government is any mention of relevant Hussein Bahamas administration officials with responsibility for the type of Federal outpost liberated in Oregon. It is like no one in the Federal government sees an opportunity to derive glory from this. It appears no one in today's Federal government wants the "glory" Janet Reno won at Waco or that Richard Rogers won at Ruby Ridge. Hussein's 2008 campaign slogan "Yes we can" has in this last year of his administration turned around completely into a quiet "Fuck it, why even try?" At this rate there will be little left for whoever gets stuck as the next United States president.
Mark to be pronounced "Carl" not "four" ↩