I’ve been spending time in courtrooms again:

→ Eye on The Press: German Court, in a Really Short-Sighted Move, Basically Criminalises Software Debugging

A local district court in Germany has fined a programmer for analysing software for a client and then reporting a serious vulnerability

Did you know that there is a cursed colour in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB colour space? Someone took a stunning picture that includes this cursed colour in a single pixel and if you set that as your wallpaper on Android devices made by Google or Samsung before an August 2020 security update got applied, it would brick your phone. How cool is that?

Here’s a writeup of how it works. Thanks to @mcc for telling me about this; I totally missed this story when it originally broke.

Security story of the day:

• Navy Warship’s Facebook Page Hacked to Stream “Age of Empires” Gaming — The destroyer-class USS Kidd streamed hours of game play in a funny incident that has serious cybersecurity ramifications.

Twitch has reset everyone’s stream keys. Presumably because of the hack. Funnily, they don’t say why in the email they sent out to streamers. Maybe they presume everyone knows of the hack by now? Interesting corporate communications strategy there…