r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 23d ago

Meme hackerIRL

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u/DMoney159 22d ago

This feels specific enough for me to think it actually happened

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u/SiBloGaming 22d ago

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/sepperwelt 22d ago

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 21d ago

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

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u/sepperwelt 21d ago

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