#TIL Windows to this day still defaults to Kerberos+RC4 for Active Directory authentication, despite RC4 being deprecated for thirty years. The attack used in this breach has been known for more than a decade.https://flipboard.com/@arstechnica/ars-technica-nb4if9fgz/-/a-Hv8HAzxWSkyApJMPzq4j7w%3Aa%3A1805463070-%2F0

@whack it is apparently *extremely crispy* up north

I sure can hear echoes of The Dark Knight trilogy in this score

Microsoft finally has an adoption roadmap for #PQC! I've been waiting for something like this ever since my friends at Amazon Cryptography published theirs back in December 2024 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/20/quantum-safe-security-progress-towards-next-generation-cryptography/

there's an XScreenSaver mode for this, and now the original 6502 BASIC is open sourced https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/