Not related to the PHP thing. It's e-mudhra incident. They were (yes, they voluntarily shutdown their business) a Certificate Authority (Who sell SSL certificates like Cloudflare or Let's Encrypt). They generated 8 security keys that were something like 4, 8, ... Which can be guessed easily. In effect when you go to your bank's website, how do you know the website is actually your bank and not some scammer pretending to be? Based on the SSL certificate. Usually to prove this, websites use a 384-digit number that cannot be guessed easily by anybody else. '4' is easy to guess and can be used by other people to pretend to be your bank.
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back in my day the funny numbers were over 9000
Vegeta! How many scouters did you break on youtube?
ALL of them!
4 is definetely popping rn
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Don't worry, the memes make themselves
Don't know about middle schoolers but entire IT industry is laughing at 4 since yesterday.
What's the context?
eMudhra root cert private key: https://chaos.social/@fluepke/117474156947559280
“laughing”
here's your sperm
that_s_the_joke.tga
Oopsie, I wasn't paying attention to what community this was posted on. My bad.
4 is the new funny number. Shit crashed hard.
四
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This is so much funnier than people on Lemmy will give it credit for
The polyglot's sensible chuckle of the day.
They knew all along! Four is bad omen!
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Why is 4 a meme? I know it has something to do with the php thing that happened but I am not good enough with computer to be dialed in.
Not related to the PHP thing. It's e-mudhra incident. They were (yes, they voluntarily shutdown their business) a Certificate Authority (Who sell SSL certificates like Cloudflare or Let's Encrypt). They generated 8 security keys that were something like 4, 8, ... Which can be guessed easily. In effect when you go to your bank's website, how do you know the website is actually your bank and not some scammer pretending to be? Based on the SSL certificate. Usually to prove this, websites use a 384-digit number that cannot be guessed easily by anybody else. '4' is easy to guess and can be used by other people to pretend to be your bank.
A CA used it as a private key.
The php vulns were actually completely unrelated
63... hehehe
Divisible by 7 and 9 lol
lmaoooooo