I am reminded of the infamous Sendmail worm from 1989(?).
If this compromised OpenSSHd had become the default across millions of systems all over the world, could a worm-like thing have brought a major chunk of the Internet down? Imagine millions of servers suddenly stuck in a boot-loop, refusing to boot.
And all because one owner of a library had some mental health issues. We should not have such SPOFs.
Impossible here because the exploit was carefully engineered to be unreplayable and NOBUS (nobody but us) so it couldn’t go viral. Even if you intercepted a complete tcp byte trace of the attack there was nothing you could do with that to attack other systems.
If this compromised OpenSSHd had become the default across millions of systems all over the world, could a worm-like thing have brought a major chunk of the Internet down? Imagine millions of servers suddenly stuck in a boot-loop, refusing to boot.
And all because one owner of a library had some mental health issues. We should not have such SPOFs.