do not click on markdownin notepad. It's ok to click on markdown here in your brower because I'm just letting you know not to click on markdown illegal-to-say

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[–] 30 points 8 months ago (1 child)

new CVE

Look inside

Its unsanitized text input

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    We may be laughing now, but Microslop is going to roll out 10-factor authentication on Shithub because of this.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Shithub

    What are good alternatives if any

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Forgejo is really easy to operate if you already have a server.

    Codeberg is a large public Forgejo instance.

    There is also https://tangled.org/ which I've meant to look into for a while but never gotten around to. I think it's promising but it's still alpha software. Forgejo and Gitea before it have been around for almost 10 years altogether.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    win11 shitty notepad or all notepad?

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    So AI slop coding is going great!

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    The US has lost the AI race.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    wtf version of notepad even lets you create clickable hyperlinks in the first place?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    My main uses for notepad:

    Second clipboard I can paste stuff into without worrying about consequences.

    Paste formatted text into notepad and copy it immediately to strip away formatting.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Depending on the browser settings, the content of the URL bar get sent to Google even without hitting enter.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    It's just a bad practice and it doesn't really matter which search engine.

    It also wouldn't surprise me if browsers send it to the DNS server which is an unencrypted request. But I don't know that.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago*

    hilarious

    or maybe it was just a backdoor that the wrong person noticed

    The 3 people who reported it are:
    Cristian Papa, Romanian in Romania,
    Alasdair Gorniak, slav (?) in the UK,
    Chen, Chinese person, https://x.com/chen9918b/status/2015688020356407548, "Chinese history and culture enthusiasts & market analysis"

    its so over for the Amerikkkans. Can't even install remote code execution backdoors in peace.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    I'm not a tech guy so I don't know why I - cough - clicked the link. I assumed I wouldn't be able to understand anything. But after taking a ~10 second gander at the page I saw this and it made me laugh.

    How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

    An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    The Windows Notepad app has a glaring vulnerability. It sends all your contained data to some Microsoft AI if you click the wrong button.

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