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Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world | Ars Technica

A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained persistent communication with a malicious website, researchers reported Thursday, in the latest episode of a supply-chain attack.

SeattleRain ,

Why? Aren’t most of these streams public?

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

Always on the election seasons. Go figure.

tsonfeir ,
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Louisville, Kentucky-based

I’m willing to put money on them being a Trump supporter.

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

Same here, but let’s be honest. It could just as easily be dems too - DNC ain’t no saint either. We’re comparing apples to oranges here (no pun intended, but I still chuckled) but they’re both pretty old/rotten

tsonfeir ,
@tsonfeir@lemmy.world avatar

So you have a single example?

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

I’d say the systematic removal of Bernie from the lineup in the 2016 election was a pretty big fucking fail, to me as a liberal.

Still better than the alternative, but one shit pile who’s smaller than the other, is still a shit pile.

Politics are multifaceted ultimately, and only ever really having 2 sides to choose from almost always leads to some pretty serious “misalignments”

tsonfeir ,
@tsonfeir@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I loved Bernie.

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

He’s been a career professional for politics for a long time - civil rights namely. Real shame the DNC screwed everyone.

tsonfeir ,
@tsonfeir@lemmy.world avatar

Well, they had a primary, and he lost. It’s the votes who screwed themselves.

We need ranked voting.

stevedidwhat_infosec ,

It was much more than that

…wikipedia.org/…/2016_Democratic_National_Committ…

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