Well, that was my thought. But as mentioned earlier - I tend to assume the least of you who are longtimers here are are 10x my skill - so I always assume there is something I've missed. 

The noobz who show up here, I tend to feel superior to. But the rest of you - I just assume I'm the new kid who showed up at a local with people who've been showing up for a decade before I arrived. 

Seems a safe bet. 

Wed May 06 2026 09:18:25 EDT from Nurb432

Not sure how you could not notice if all the passwords were changed..  He could easily see if people were logging in recently.. he had to know it would not fly under the radar.

 

 

 

The current hotness is CVE-2026-31431, known as "copy fail", along with some related exploits.

You have to already be a local user, and then you can do some things to gain root access.  It's pretty significant, but you have to already be logged in as a regular user to exploit it.  It doesn't expose itself on the wire.

But if you expose any services, and if they have any remote execution holes... ( and a lot of things do )

Sat May 09 2026 11:59:35 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

The current hotness is CVE-2026-31431, known as "copy fail", along with some related exploits.

You have to already be a local user, and then you can do some things to gain root access.  It's pretty significant, but you have to already be logged in as a regular user to exploit it.  It doesn't expose itself on the wire.