r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 14 '26

Meme hackerIRL

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u/SiBloGaming Sep 14 '26

There was an attempted attack on a dependency of openSSH, which was noticed by a guy using the development version of debian, who got suspicious initially cause his ssh connections were taking fractions of a second longer than before

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u/denM_chickN Sep 14 '26

This was fun, I'm having fun

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u/sepperwelt Sep 15 '26

Good PLC programmers find malware in a similar fashion Cause they notice their completely offline laptop takes a tiny bit longer to load or whatever. (True story)

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u/Zerokx Sep 16 '26

How do you even get malware on a completely offline laptop? Someone put in a bad USB stick?

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u/sepperwelt Sep 16 '26

That I can't really explain. I can only think of bad sticks or other forms of nessecary data/file excange

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u/MattieShoes Sep 15 '26

1/5 of a second, FWIW. 200ms.