Rust

It was 2 AM. I was digging through my local anime folder trying to figure out why my media server hadn’t picked up a new episode. I opened the SQLite database file out of curiosity — just to see what was in there. I could read it. All of it. Every title. Every rating. Every entry in my watch history. Plain UTF-8 text, sitting unprotected on my disk. I closed the terminal and stared at the ceiling for a while. ...

Recently, I watched a Veritasium video called “The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew.” It dives deep into the history of the XZ Utils backdoor—a highly sophisticated, multi-year social engineering campaign that almost compromised OpenSSH and the entire open-source ecosystem. A malicious actor spent years gaining trust, slowly pushing malicious commits into a deeply buried compression library that everything else depends on. ...