Some place in Rone when I was about 10 on a trip with my parents. Cut out of a massive rectangle, ate in the street, it was memorable.

Sounds like you’re in good hands. Enjoy the ride, plenty to learn and to feel good about understanding :)

It’s the same tactic over and over again, accuse others of doing what you are doing and do it first, so any later accusation can be dismissed as sore losing.

What did I just waste 40s reading?

But also, simply, Israel is run by a far right governement.

It is, see https://github.com/m4tx/curl-bash-attack

No, it is different, as it adds an entire layer of indirection and unknown to the mix, increasing the risk in the process.

Yes, this is the correct approach from a security perspective.

Please tell me you are not seriously equating a highly sophisticated attack line the Solarwind compromise with piping curl to bash?

This is a bit like saying crossing the street blindfolded while juggling chainsaws and crossing the street on a pedestrian crossing while the light is red for cars both carry risk. Sure. One’s a terrible idea though.

Oh the example in the article is the nice version if this attack.

Checking the script as downloaded by wget or curl and then piping curl to bash is still a terrible idea, as you have no guarantee you’ll get the same script in both cases:

• Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side
• Recent implementation of this attack

Physicist Education is amazing and one of their most catchy songs.

I didn’t think one really needs to recommend any in particular to demonstrate their musical ability, they are all complex and impressive. And good! the technicality serves the music, not the other way round.

Most people don’t know how to use ftp anymore. It’s a pretty limited protocol (and requires 2 open ports to function). It’s hard to integrate with good modern auth solutions. Probably more, that’s off the top of my head.

I’m not sure you are fully aware of the Tor threat model. The exit node is not supposed to be specifically trusted.

This.

It’s factual, public, relevant info, it can and should be on Wikipedia.

Of course it can’t replace it, it’s a point-in-time archive.

Sure but, again, the files are in a relatively low quality.

It’s got lots of great ideas (combining what’s essentially a giant git repo with bit torrent), but in practice it’s pretty slow to do anything

You assume a whole lot of thought and strategy from “the boss” :)

I dont disagree though, fundamentally.

What a great pic, really encapsulates a lot of the image of Garbage and Shirley Manson!