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I rolled out a home-made backup script in Powershell - just a wrapper around wbadmin that backs up an entire system image and the a standard "Backup and Restore" backup on an external disk once I plugged it in.

I even signed it and everything.


It was not compromised a few days ago, that's just when the attack was disclosed. The actual compromise and exploitation happened months ago for several weeks.

That wouldn't work because Windows doesn't understand url-encoded sequences.

Old notepad is still there, it's just in System32 and you have to disable app execution alias for notepad.exe (apps > advanced app settings > app execution aliases)

FYI, old notepad has a permanent advertisement / notification at the top saying that there's a new version of Notepad available!

I'm not sure if it's possible to get rid of the nag banner. And even if it is possible to get rid of it temporarily, it's probably not possible to get rid of it permanently.

I will find out...


I close the banner on the first run and it never shows up in subsequent run of Notepad

How did they regress to HTTP from HTTPS?

The hackers already have it.

There is no reason to hide it from the general public.


Elon Musk in negotiation with himself.

What does the process look like, exactly?


I'm not totally clear, but it probably involves the ol' stranger.


A lot of ketamine is involved.


You do whatever you feel like.

You get sued.

You drown the court in expensive lawyers.

Rinse. Wash. Repeat.


Thinking I'll just create a clone of JuiceSSH myself and make all the stuff FOSS. I don't like developers who fleece me out of my purchases.


I too bought JuiceSSH. I can still download and run it on other phones I get in the future, right?


Cloud sync seems busted, so not really.


Is Sun Microsystems in the room with us?


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