This Day on SN: November 28 \ stacker news ~meta

#786884 on Found In The Wild: The World’s First Unkillable UEFI Bootkit For Linux
- 10.1k sats \ 2 replies \ @final \ November 28, 2024
  
  They're popular amongst targeted (state-level?) attack campaigns that have an amount of known victims in the tens or low hundreds. They're pretty advanced, but there isn't much of a benefit to a bootkit beyond absolute persistence compared to a zero-click remote 0day. Malicious UEFI firmware that infects the OS on reboots have been observed in the wild before, and the NSA also had firmware attacks for weaponizing hard drives during the Snowden era too. [...]
#331553 on Stacker Saloon
- 2080 sats \ 19 replies \ @orthwyrm \ November 28, 2023
  
  Day 227 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k. [...]
#99779 on Meme Monday - Best Bitcoin Meme Gets 10,000 Sats
- 10.6k sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptonator \ November 28, 2022
  
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#5513 on Why aren't Reusable Payment Codes (BIP-47) more popular?
- 125 sats \ 2 replies \ @jimmysong \ November 28, 2021
  
  I have a long story about this one. But basically, the guy that wrote BIP0047 made some poor choices at the beginning. Some of those choices were called out by Luke Dash Jr and then the blocksize wars happened and the guy left for BCH. With no champion, the thing sort of just sat there. [...]

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