Ron Obvious
Ron Obvious's JournalUnpatched iPhone Bug Allows Remote Device Takeover
Amazing. It sounds like an old-fashioned sprintf() style bug with unchecked parameters, if that's not too dated a reference these days.
Summary: A Wifi router with the SSID "%p%s%s%s%s%n" can take over your phone if you connect to it (automatically or otherwise)
A vulnerability in Apple iOS opens the door to remote code execution (RCE), researchers found. The assessment is a revision from a previous understanding of the flaw that viewed it as a low-risk (and somewhat wacky) denial-of-service (DoS) problem affecting iPhone’s Wi-Fi feature.
The original DoS issue is a string-format bug discovered by researcher Carl Schou, who found that connecting to an access point with the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n” would disable a device’s Wi-Fi.”
https://threatpost.com/unpatched-iphone-bug-remote-takeover/167922/
Sixty years of hurt....
Jules Rimet still gleaming
Sixty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming....
A preview of the England song for the 2026 World Cup, a mere 5 years away now.
Oh well, best team of the tournament won it in the end. I can live with that.
[CNN Health] They lost their loved ones to Covid. Then they heard from them again
What an embarrassment for CNN. Communication from the great beyond, dear oh dear. Interesting from the point of view of psychology, sure, but that's now how this is presented.
"Reported encounters with departed loved ones are not uncommon"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/20/health/supernatural-encounters-pandemic-loved-ones-blake/index.html
[video] Pottling around (couple of Pixie sightings)
This is a rather charming series of videos from a guy calling himself Erwin Saunders ambling through the woods looking for pixies and filming them. They're really rather well done and very professional looking too.
Shatner and Nimoy together on the screen for the first time (1964)
This is from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I was reading an interview with the 90 y.o. Shatner and one link lead to another.
Blink and you'll miss it, but you can just imagine Nimoy thinking "Fascinating".
Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years (youtube link included)
A Soviet television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings thought to have been lost to time was rediscovered and posted on YouTube last week, delighting Russian-language fans of JRR Tolkien.
The 1991 made-for-TV film, Khraniteli, based on Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, is the only adaptation of his Lord of the Rings trilogy believed to have been made in the Soviet Union.
Aired 10 years before the release of the first instalment of Peter Jackson’s movie trilogy, the low-budget film appears ripped from another age: the costumes and sets are rudimentary, the special effects are ludicrous, and many of the scenes look more like a theatre production than a feature-length film.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years
Here it is (for now, until the Tolkien estate issues the take-down notice, I suspect)
Cattle Acrobatics
I don't know where this is or exactly what kind of animal it is, but I'm sure he meant to do that.
Blessed on Blessed: Brian's Celebrity Beefs
Actor Brian Blessed (he of the booming voice) airs his views on Peter O'Toole, Oliver Reed and others.
Hilarious! What the Hell did I just watch? 
Hallo? Guten Tag? Staubsauger?
A happy memory of laughing so hard, tears ran down my face:
Peter Sellers in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
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