something that became obviously important about Muse while i was writing this up is like... how many servers were there that ran Ubuntu before? millions? tens of millions? Muse had reached 3 million weekly users on September 30th, 3 weeks after it launched. Meta is pushing it aggressively on their 3.5 billion users, and if even a fraction of them end up even logging in once and connecting their stuff, then the number of live Ubuntu systems with valuable secrets multiplies by severalfold - but unlike all the other Ubuntu machines, they have a totally homogenous package surface, are administered by *nobody*, and used by amateurs through a random number generator that resorts to yoloing random binaries from the web almost as a first resort.
so anyway, Muse increases the attractiveness of a supply chain attack on Ubuntu, and the upstream Debian systems by ........ a lot.
jonny (nonvenomous)
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