Maybe those credentials were posted on github by devels and then scraped from there. Or from google, there is a bunch of id_rsa that pop up with trivial searchs.
Anyway, 25.000 linux/unix servers looks like a very low number, considering the 500.000.000 servers running apache or nginx, even with multiple domain hosted in a lot of them.
Old, unmaintained legacy versions may not have security fixes for reported problems. And if well in open source software may have maintainers for old versions if enough liked them, for companies may not be profitable to keep updating old versions (unless the support contract/terms of service forces them).
... they are tied to a country which government can require them to put backdoors in software and hardware, and not to tell anyone about that. The only way to really get clean is really open the source/specifications of everything (including propietary firmware) and let people, companies and countries really be able to check that claims. Until then, you can't decide whether they are telling the truth or not. We already learned what happens when you put blind trust in something even bigger than IBM.
And if people start buying from that brand over rivals (or having country legislation forbidding not open enough and/or so backdoored hardware) it may move others to do the same.
Also, if a "hidden" functionality is exposed in major brands using that executable code to perform malware-like activities that brands should be punished in security aware circles. That won't reach the majority of people, but will be an start.
We were promised flying cars, home fusion reactors and hoverboards for next year. We already should had sent a tripulated mission to Jupiter, and the world should had ended 2 years ago. Sometimes our expectations have no grounds on the real world.
But anyway, maybe believing in some fantasies (like there is such thing as justice, and in this case, living forever) could improve things, maybe with that belief we could finally care about making our world to be sustainable in the long term.
Believing that movies are "real" make them enjoyable, but not true. All the crying, pain, emotion shown is just an actor in front of a lot of cameras and people, and probably a green screen behind, but still you feel like it is true, Do the same with religion, suppose that there exist a meaning, luck, justice, etc in life, even someone that you can ask for help and that you can see his hand through confirmation bias.
But don't take it too seriously because you know its false. You don't do things that could put your life or of others at risk because you saw someone in an (obviously fiction) movie doing it, take the same attitude regarding religion. Neither you should follow people that claiming that that fiction movie/book was real do things that affect other people lives.
They must get to you somehow. Widespread use of criptocurrencies mean that with social engineering, fake/trojaned apps or even using nsa backdoors your wallet is exposed for all the world. Social engineering is a powerful tool with bitcoin stealing trojans. Things are not so easy with bank accounts, even with all the problems they have, and of course, not with cash.
Cryptocurrencies with no intermediaries can't become popular till we fix internet/personal devices security. If the intermediary is the government or banks then you are more or less in the same situation than with dollars, and if are thirdy party you will have the same problems that with bitcoin now, either they run/dissapear with your money or get hacked and stolen.
And if you don't want to rely in third-party gatekeepers, how most people will use it? In your phone? in your (for the majority, windows) pc? You can't use gatekeepers because a lot got hacked or just run with the coins, and you can't have them yourself because the most used platforms are ripe for external exploit, either making the user do something or just making popular good looking trojans.
And if that insecurity is not enough, having over that government sponsored weakened encryption algorythms and mandated backdoors don't help a lot.
We are still not ready for a distributed digital money in those terms.
If you will ban contributors because their home country intelligence agencies may be trying to plant backdoors or weaken security in a way or another, you should start with the main country by far engaged in such activities, else would be meaningless or just following an unrelated agenda. But if you trust in contributors of such country, why not of others?
The last visible reaction of a chain of events don't mean that the chain started there. Hit me in my knee and my leg will kick. That it implies more rational thinking don't mean that some rational reactions are as inevitable as that one.
Cheerleader effect. If well you don't see your friends in a photo with you, the basic principle is similar, we find attractive any mean to take part of a community.
Something like this document involving funding revolutionary groups? Or maybe could be explained with NSA/GCHQ manipulation in social networks? That the first report blames the owner of the site of the other report could give an idea of how complex is putting blame on someone lately, but in case of doubt, don't attribute to stupidity what can be explained with NSA's malice.
If you think that is bad enough that the government is doing it, think that in fact the ones doing it is the people of the government, the same ones that spied the conversation between US soldiers and their fiancees/wives when they were at Afganistan, and shared between themselves the hottest parts.
Probably the biggest repository of child porn of the world is in NSA servers for their "investigative" use. And we are speaking about people that have power over you and your family.
1984, Brave New World and Little Brother could be too close to comfort for the authorities, probably Foundation too. And I'd say that a lot of Philip K. Dick tales where the official vision of reality is put in doubt won't make it neither.
Asimov's The Feeling of Power, Charles Stross Accelerando, Vernon Vinge's Rainbow's End and parts of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy could give different hints on how the future could develop without too much controversy.
Can't recommend Stephenson's Diamond Age because for me is somewhat the past. It was written before wikipedia and internet, before than even poor children in 3rd world countries had an access to all of it. And those children prefer to access youtube videos and play candy crush over accessing wikipedia.
And is futurism too, predicting and influencing how large groups think and behave, is something that is used today, maybe not at the millenia scale of foundation, but is some of the predictions that is making our everyday lives today, be aware of it or not.
Why maintain soldiers if they can make the enemy population do the dirty work for them? Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Syria and other arab countries, and probably more to come, all follow the same pattern. And if well you can't tell when or when not they used the weapon they have and are willing to use, you must assume the worst.
One of the main problems is drivers. Maybe for this new ones a newer android, or firefox os, or ubuntu touch can be ported, as happen with most of the ones with android preinstalled. But if you can't handle hardware properly those ports could lack serious functionalities (i.e. Nitdroid for the N900 lacked microphone support for phone calls)
It shows, all being similar, would be the coastline if the water somewhat magically rises so much in a calm way, as in what causes the water rises is an isolated event that only happen in Antarctica and Greenland, that causes the ice melt, global sea rise and thats it. But will be process that will be happening in all the world, sometimes in violent ways, that will cause floods (even in places far from the coast), droughs, high winds events, extreme heath (and cold), probably in a scale far bigger than we've seen in the last 6 months. The afected areas won't be in a so uniform way as the map shows.
And if well it shows that coastal cities will be flooded, it don't show the chaos that it will imply, with maybe in the order of a billon of people living in those areas, only having their now worthless house, that will have to move to slums of then very expensive new/old cities that should be far enough from sea, to be surely hit by extreme weather events. And don't forget about food. What about crops that get ruined if a heavy rainstorms or hailstorms hits them?
Anyway, don't get too scared by the 500m sea level rise, even if the entire antarctica ice melts sea should not rise a lot more than 100m. Probably will be a lot of more things to worry about if that manages to happen.
So you keep all your passwords in.bash_history? If by any chance the way you generated it for one site spills (from watching over your shoulder to putting a keylogger or whatever), all the others could fall.
Btw, just adding a space at the start of the line will make bash to not save it in history.
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This list should be updated. With a bit of luck it won't be a fractal too.
Maybe those credentials were posted on github by devels and then scraped from there. Or from google, there is a bunch of id_rsa that pop up with trivial searchs.
Anyway, 25.000 linux/unix servers looks like a very low number, considering the 500.000.000 servers running apache or nginx, even with multiple domain hosted in a lot of them.
Old, unmaintained legacy versions may not have security fixes for reported problems. And if well in open source software may have maintainers for old versions if enough liked them, for companies may not be profitable to keep updating old versions (unless the support contract/terms of service forces them).
... they are tied to a country which government can require them to put backdoors in software and hardware, and not to tell anyone about that. The only way to really get clean is really open the source/specifications of everything (including propietary firmware) and let people, companies and countries really be able to check that claims. Until then, you can't decide whether they are telling the truth or not. We already learned what happens when you put blind trust in something even bigger than IBM.
And if people start buying from that brand over rivals (or having country legislation forbidding not open enough and/or so backdoored hardware) it may move others to do the same.
Also, if a "hidden" functionality is exposed in major brands using that executable code to perform malware-like activities that brands should be punished in security aware circles. That won't reach the majority of people, but will be an start.
We were promised flying cars, home fusion reactors and hoverboards for next year. We already should had sent a tripulated mission to Jupiter, and the world should had ended 2 years ago. Sometimes our expectations have no grounds on the real world.
But anyway, maybe believing in some fantasies (like there is such thing as justice, and in this case, living forever) could improve things, maybe with that belief we could finally care about making our world to be sustainable in the long term.
Believing that movies are "real" make them enjoyable, but not true. All the crying, pain, emotion shown is just an actor in front of a lot of cameras and people, and probably a green screen behind, but still you feel like it is true, Do the same with religion, suppose that there exist a meaning, luck, justice, etc in life, even someone that you can ask for help and that you can see his hand through confirmation bias. But don't take it too seriously because you know its false. You don't do things that could put your life or of others at risk because you saw someone in an (obviously fiction) movie doing it, take the same attitude regarding religion. Neither you should follow people that claiming that that fiction movie/book was real do things that affect other people lives.
They must get to you somehow. Widespread use of criptocurrencies mean that with social engineering, fake/trojaned apps or even using nsa backdoors your wallet is exposed for all the world. Social engineering is a powerful tool with bitcoin stealing trojans. Things are not so easy with bank accounts, even with all the problems they have, and of course, not with cash.
Cryptocurrencies with no intermediaries can't become popular till we fix internet/personal devices security. If the intermediary is the government or banks then you are more or less in the same situation than with dollars, and if are thirdy party you will have the same problems that with bitcoin now, either they run/dissapear with your money or get hacked and stolen.
Even having nothing to hide, and guilty of nothing, you are still target to confirmation bias. And a private joke could put you in deep troubles.
And if you don't want to rely in third-party gatekeepers, how most people will use it? In your phone? in your (for the majority, windows) pc? You can't use gatekeepers because a lot got hacked or just run with the coins, and you can't have them yourself because the most used platforms are ripe for external exploit, either making the user do something or just making popular good looking trojans.
And if that insecurity is not enough, having over that government sponsored weakened encryption algorythms and mandated backdoors don't help a lot.
We are still not ready for a distributed digital money in those terms.
If you will ban contributors because their home country intelligence agencies may be trying to plant backdoors or weaken security in a way or another, you should start with the main country by far engaged in such activities, else would be meaningless or just following an unrelated agenda. But if you trust in contributors of such country, why not of others?
Oblig xkcd. He is the weakest link in the unbreakable encryption of his bitcoin wallet.
The last visible reaction of a chain of events don't mean that the chain started there. Hit me in my knee and my leg will kick. That it implies more rational thinking don't mean that some rational reactions are as inevitable as that one.
Cheerleader effect. If well you don't see your friends in a photo with you, the basic principle is similar, we find attractive any mean to take part of a community.
Something like this document involving funding revolutionary groups? Or maybe could be explained with NSA/GCHQ manipulation in social networks? That the first report blames the owner of the site of the other report could give an idea of how complex is putting blame on someone lately, but in case of doubt, don't attribute to stupidity what can be explained with NSA's malice.
If you think that is bad enough that the government is doing it, think that in fact the ones doing it is the people of the government, the same ones that spied the conversation between US soldiers and their fiancees/wives when they were at Afganistan, and shared between themselves the hottest parts.
Probably the biggest repository of child porn of the world is in NSA servers for their "investigative" use. And we are speaking about people that have power over you and your family.
to NOT be used as money and instead become something useful.
1984, Brave New World and Little Brother could be too close to comfort for the authorities, probably Foundation too. And I'd say that a lot of Philip K. Dick tales where the official vision of reality is put in doubt won't make it neither.
Asimov's The Feeling of Power, Charles Stross Accelerando, Vernon Vinge's Rainbow's End and parts of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy could give different hints on how the future could develop without too much controversy.
Can't recommend Stephenson's Diamond Age because for me is somewhat the past. It was written before wikipedia and internet, before than even poor children in 3rd world countries had an access to all of it. And those children prefer to access youtube videos and play candy crush over accessing wikipedia.
And is futurism too, predicting and influencing how large groups think and behave, is something that is used today, maybe not at the millenia scale of foundation, but is some of the predictions that is making our everyday lives today, be aware of it or not.
Why maintain soldiers if they can make the enemy population do the dirty work for them? Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Syria and other arab countries, and probably more to come, all follow the same pattern. And if well you can't tell when or when not they used the weapon they have and are willing to use, you must assume the worst.
You can use it for everyday tasks too. At least the summary is easier to read than man 5 sudoers.
One of the main problems is drivers. Maybe for this new ones a newer android, or firefox os, or ubuntu touch can be ported, as happen with most of the ones with android preinstalled. But if you can't handle hardware properly those ports could lack serious functionalities (i.e. Nitdroid for the N900 lacked microphone support for phone calls)
It shows, all being similar, would be the coastline if the water somewhat magically rises so much in a calm way, as in what causes the water rises is an isolated event that only happen in Antarctica and Greenland, that causes the ice melt, global sea rise and thats it. But will be process that will be happening in all the world, sometimes in violent ways, that will cause floods (even in places far from the coast), droughs, high winds events, extreme heath (and cold), probably in a scale far bigger than we've seen in the last 6 months. The afected areas won't be in a so uniform way as the map shows.
And if well it shows that coastal cities will be flooded, it don't show the chaos that it will imply, with maybe in the order of a billon of people living in those areas, only having their now worthless house, that will have to move to slums of then very expensive new/old cities that should be far enough from sea, to be surely hit by extreme weather events. And don't forget about food. What about crops that get ruined if a heavy rainstorms or hailstorms hits them?
Anyway, don't get too scared by the 500m sea level rise, even if the entire antarctica ice melts sea should not rise a lot more than 100m. Probably will be a lot of more things to worry about if that manages to happen.
So you keep all your passwords in .bash_history? If by any chance the way you generated it for one site spills (from watching over your shoulder to putting a keylogger or whatever), all the others could fall.
Btw, just adding a space at the start of the line will make bash to not save it in history.