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How shitty standards stick around (programming.dev)

submitted 2 weeks ago by SwooshBakery624@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I genuinely thought it was a reference to the other four thing currently happening...

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[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

What other four thing?

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

One of the global certificate authorities used a private key which's value was 4. As in, that is the entire private key in its full length.

It's part of this incident, which you've probably heard of: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

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