Cybersecurity

Everything old is new again. In my teens, one of the more popular RATs out there was Sub7. In one of the later releases an IRC bot feature was added. Fortunately I was neither tech savvy enough nor grand enough in thinking to grasp the implications or I'd have probably set about building my own botnet. To what end? Who knows. Driven more by curiosity than malice, I'd probably have been tickled just kicking back and watching machines pop in and out of my own little digital aquarium. The same way I got a goofy grin firing off an ansible playbook just to watch the LEDs blink on my RPi devices (maybe I'm still not grand enough in thought 😅).

Finally, it won't be just D among those "fancy new memory safe syslangs" that are getting falsely flagged by shoddy antiviruses and their "AI" enhanced search features that think a runtime used by a malware = the malware itself.