sacnoradhq
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
Meta, for example, consolidated to Workplace + Google, away from Dropbox, Microsoft, Apple, and others. They use AWS and Azure for some 50k desktops on demand and a few servers, but it mostly deploys to its own metal because it's way, way cheaper than AWS in most use-cases.
This is writing sizeof(char) (== 1 almost everywhere) zero to address zero. It is not using a NULL macro or other predefined symbol.
In the real world, this would generally write a byte to address 0000:0000, leading to UB because it would fuck up the divide-by-zero IV.
PS: I used Borland C++ 3.1, Microsoft C++ 3.x and 4.5x, Watcom, and early GNU.
PS: NSFW in case the casual observer never encountered the horror that was goatse.cx:
NSFW https://web.archive.org/web/20010518002205/http://www.goatse... NSFW
* Superset of bare metal recovery readiness, proven backups, monitoring, availability, and warm storage integrity.
** Superset of consistency, isolation, referential integrity, and data hygiene.
*** Superset of authenticated, G4+ FHE, and/or zero-knowledge encryption at rest and in-flight, elimination of side-channels, least privilege access control of metadata and data, removing plaintext paths, reducing privacy-liability metadata, and eliminating bleed-through of internal metadata externally.
And if you have 750+ employees, you better have an (endpoint) client platform too to minify development, non-development, and support variables.
It would be neigh impossible to defend against 100k flying drones wielding cow-knockers programmed to swarm, loiter, break windows, and kill humans. Such could be dispensed by purpose-built intermodal containers, moved by ordinary freight logistics to attack multiple population centers in a simultaneous attack.
Code and binaries are shipped to 10's of millions of servers by internal configuration management tools. Take Meta, Google, or Microsoft and turn them into AI exploit and worm fabrication at scale. While it may happen for only an hour or 2, there's quite a bit that could happen and the possibility of advanced persistent threats is real.
Target a demographic to alter their filter bubble to persuade them to engage in mass-casualty terrorism.
Hate group applies AI to create a designer virus lethal to particular a demographic.
Subtly disable water treatment facilities with an autonomous, stuxnet-like attack.
Also, there is a threat of municipalities, including states, suing the manufacturer for selling manufactured homes that aren't up to code. While the cases may lack standing or merit, they have lawyers who can make it very expensive to stay in business regardless.
(Not so cheap after solar, remodeling, restoration, and engine swap.)