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Watching this from the sidelines is a lot lamer than the movies make it seem.
xz utils backdoor would have been carnage though. it almost succeeded too.
For what it’s worth, we are living close to the movie Hackers, complete with turning tankers upside down and a new RCE/LPE a day lately.
RCE is remote code execution; what is LPE?
Local Privilege Escalation - i.e. someone who is already a non-admin user (whether through other hacks or normally) on your computer getting admin privileges.
FFS, I should have known that. I literally did that as an exam in one of my IT Security classes.
I suppose it's just the culture that's just kind of flat, I thought it would be more universal but everyone is in their own bubbles so it's fractured all over the place, which is neat for the niches but there's no glue.