Shellshock Bequeathed →
Much ado about something, nearly a quarter century in the offing, and further evidence to support our Theory of Cruft, or the Things that are Left Over, and Getting in the Way...
Much ado about something, nearly a quarter century in the offing, and further evidence to support our Theory of Cruft, or the Things that are Left Over, and Getting in the Way...
Cogitate thrice upon updating newly released software with newly released patches to fix newly discovered bugs, as evidence of cruft...
Evidently, Public Shaming, a la 16th Century European public pillorying and taunt, is the vogue, when targeting mindless, and therefore vulnerable, web deployments. The latest body incarnate example of this manouevre, is HTTP Shaming, a Tumblr blog dedicated to exposing the less-than-well-planned-sites floating around our interweb.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.* Apparently all the makings [crypto flaws] of an extraordinary breach of sensitive data, this time contained within an enormous number of Android devices, has been discovered. Astonishingly, upwards of eighty-six percentile of all Android devices may be vulnerable.
*[Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George!' speech of Shakespeare's Henry V, Act III, 1598., evidently all the more relevant today...]