The DMZ

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Journeyman Geek

02:25

@forest my guess would be some smartass was adding it in and something got huffy

@J-- That was half the amusement, the other half was the manner it was naughty in

@J-- If I can get something in a fairly non annoying way at a price I am ok with, I don't pirate

I don't feel a moral obligation to fund some media exec's next mega yacht

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forest

06:24

@JourneymanGeek lol it has zalgo

> Ṱ̺̺̕o͞ ̷i̲̬͇̪͙n̝̗͕v̟̜̘̦͟o̶̙̰̠kè͚̮̺̪̹̱̤ ̖t̝͕̳̣̻̪͞h̼͓̲̦̳̘̲e͇̣̰̦̬͎ ̢̼̻̱̘h͚͎͙̜̣̲ͅi̦̲̣̰̤v̻͍e̺̭̳̪̰-m̢iͅn̖̺̞̲̯̰d̵̼̟͙̩̼̘̳ ̞̥̱̳̭r̛̗̘e͙p͠r̼̞̻̭̗e̺̠̣͟s̘͇̳͍̝͉e͉̥̯̞̲͚̬͜ǹ̬͎͎̟̖͇̤t͍̬̤͓̼̭͘ͅi̪̱n͠g̴͉ ͏͉ͅc̬̟h͡a̫̻̯͘o̫̟̖͍̙̝͉s̗̦̲.̨̹͈̣
̡͓̞ͅI̗̘̦͝n͇͇͙v̮̫ok̲̫̙͈i̖͙̭̹̠̞n̡̻̮̣̺g̲͈͙̭͙̬͎ ̰t͔̦h̞̲e̢̤ ͍̬̲͖f̴̘͕̣è͖ẹ̥̩l͖͔͚i͓͚̦͠n͖͍̗͓̳̮g͍ ̨o͚̪͡f̘̣̬ ̖̘͖̟͙̮c҉͔̫͖͓͇͖ͅh̵̤̣͚͔á̗̼͕ͅo̼̣̥s̱͈̺̖̦̻͢.̛̖̞̠̫̰
̗̺͖̹̯͓Ṯ̤͍̥͇͈h̲́e͏͓̼̗̙̼̣͔ ͇̜̱̠͓͍ͅN͕͠e̗̱z̘̝̜̺͙p̤̺̹͍̯͚e̠̻̠͜r̨̤͍̺̖͔̖̖d̠̟̭̬̝͟i̦͖̩͓͔̤a̠̗̬͉̙n͚͜ ̻̞̰͚ͅh̵͉i̳̞v̢͇ḙ͎͟-҉̭̩̼͔m̤̭̫i͕͇̝̦n̗͙ḍ̟ ̯̲͕͞ǫ̟̯̰̲͙̻̝f ̪̰̰̗̖̭̘͘c̦͍̲̞͍̩̙ḥ͚a̮͎̟̙͜ơ̩̹͎s̤.̝̝ ҉Z̡̖̜͖̰̣͉̜a͖̰͙̬͡l̲̫̳͍̩g̡̟̼̱͚̞̬ͅo̗͜.̟

Journeyman Geek

@forest snort that periodically pollutes my inbox

forest

heh

> Strings which crashed iMessage in various versions of iOS

I remember those. When that came out, I wrote a spambot just to mess with iOS users. :D

Burnt a dozen shells to do it, but it was worth it.

Journeyman Geek

forest

lol what

Journeyman Geek

yup

forest

06:27

Was that a mod message or something?

Journeyman Geek

@forest same as the old MIRC/DCC exploit :D

@forest nope

that's a question

forest

Oh, what's that logo? I don't recognize it.

Journeyman Geek

oh the censorted one?

forest

Yeah the censored one with the zalgo.

Journeyman Geek

Oh its a private team

forest

06:28

Journeyman Geek

One you're in actually

the zalgo is from the post below it coming up

forest

Oh, I thought that's the zalgo one.

That actually makes more sense.

Journeyman Geek

naw

you don't have 10k on SU right?

that post is a complete and utter mess

forest

I have like... a little over 1000 I think.

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/432015/… is the question

https://superuser.com/questions/432015/what-is-this-%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C%CD%8C-strange-character/432017#432017

was the link as posted

._.

forest

06:31

I'm surprised that isn't a reliable DoS method for browsers.

Unless I misremember, even when it was first discovered, it didn't cause real problems.

Journeyman Geek

Its... potentially super annoying

forest

@JourneymanGeek What is "Moderator Council"?

Journeyman Geek

@forest ah, there's mentions of it around

basically trying to devolve some CM level functions to a bunch of elected mods

kinda didn't quite pan out as desired

forest

What kind of functions?

Like account merging and network-wide suspensions? (Idk what powers CMs have)

Journeyman Geek

lol

195

Q: Introducing the Moderator Council - and its first, pro-tempore, representatives

When I was a moderator, I often referred to moderation on Stack Exchange as being a janitor: cleaning up spam, deleting non-answers, removing rudeness, and eradicating a seemingly-endless stream of comments were the primary day-in-the-life tasks for me. While this term may cover what Jeff expecte...

forest

06:35

Journeyman Geek

One of the 'nice' things about SE is its a lot easier to explain when stuff's out in the open :D

16 hours later…

forest

22:22

Say, for an API to communicate with a kernel rootkit from a userspace process, what would be the absolute minimum capabilities that one could reasonably assume the process has? I'm thinking just the ability to write to all general-purpose registers and cause a context switch, since that would be possible even in the tightest seccomp sandbox and with the most restrictive resource limits.

In particular, the userspace process may not be running arbitrary code. For example, JavaScript in a browser could be reasonably assumed to be able to write arbitrary data to some registers and cause a context switch (not directly of course). I considered timing as a covert control channel, but the bandwidth and reliability is too low.

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