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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the in depth technical details

TL;DR; sigalarm handler calls syslog which isn't safe to call from a signal handler context.

Their example exploit needed about 10k attempts to get a remote shell so it's not fast or quiet, but a neat find regardless

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It uses system 2 thinking to make alterations to the plan (or idea). Rinse and repeat.

They probably meant to write system 1 thinking here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the 20th least polluting country is near 1000x worse than the estimated CO2 footprint in the article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You're right... The "more than 20 countries" thing, is about 1000x away from the real number too, so I guess they dropped a "kilo" somewhere and somehow didn't react to getting an obviously absurd result

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

This is hugely incorrect

... equivalent to 281,315 metric tons of CO2. This is roughly the same quantity of emissions that 75 coal-fired power plants produce in a year, and it exceeds the annual emissions of 20 individual countries and territories.

A single medium sized (1MW) coal power plant outputs about 6.3 million metric tons CO2 per year, so the comparison is three magnitudes off

I wouldn't trust any other numbers from that site without verification

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