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The attack on PAL firewalls came at the weekend, after PAL released patches last week and last Tuesday a proof of concept was publicly released, after the patches had been released.
The 2,000 infected firewalls were devices that hadn’t been updated during the week.
Over the 2 months, there have been major attacks on Zyxel, Sophos and Fortinet, among others. Attackers are looking for weaknesses in the firewalls protecting businesses, as once they get into the firewall, they essentially can give themselves full access to the whole business.
There’s an interesting bit about anatomy and the ability to perform the Vulcan Salute. The muscle involved is called the abductor digiti minimi muscle (of the hand); it turns our that this muscle is involved in pronating the hand and lower arm. There’s an entire chain of muscles involved in supination and pronation of the arm; they are called the Deep Front Arm Line (DFAL) and Deep Back Arm Line (DBAL) respectively. They are documented in the text Anatomy Trains. A 20-page PDF summary of the book was published in 2006 and is available here for download. Here’s an image of the 4 arm lines; the DBAL is Image D and you can clearly see its use of the abductor digiti minimi muscle on the outside edge of the hand:
About 15 years ago, I started doing a jump-rope movement called RMT Ropes. It was invented by SoCal resident David Weck – a bit of a mad scientist in the fitness industry. RMT Ropes is about jump-roping without jumping over the rope; the bread-and-butter movement of RMT Ropes is called the Dragon Roll. Weck demonstrates the movement himself in the video youtube.com/watch?v=J25_41nPFLo:
I liked RMT Ropes a lot and did it daily. Within a few weeks, I noticed that my Abductor Digiti Minimi muscles were rather sore. I consulted “Anatomy Trains” and realized this was because the Dragon Roll exercised pronation and supination of the arms; the distal endpoint of that chain had never gotten worked out. Getting sore was because the muscle was weak, and it ceased to be sore after a few more weeks. And – BTW – my “Vulcan Salute” is AWESOME. #spockwouldcry
It turns out that RMT Ropes (AKA Flow Rope) is very good for strengthening spiraling muscles in your entire body, and that’s a kind of movement/exercise we rarely get in life. You develop the ability to spread your hands – the Vulcan Salute – but you also develop the ability to spread your toes. IDK if Nimoy ever explored that more intimate version of the salute; Spock clearly never tried it on the TV show or the movies. In any case, Live Long and Prosper has a meaning well beyond its abstract/symbolic one. Hear, hear, Spock!
Weck has a public fitness studio in the San Diego area. If Steve is intrigued by the geometry/physiology of RMT Ropes, he could get a rope from this business and/or visit the mad scientist in person.
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Re: Leo’s comment about sudo failures…
Classic!
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