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Cake day: June 15th, 2025

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  • Expanding on this: the exploit was against their domain name, redirecting selected update requests away from the notepad++ servers. The software itself didn’t validate that the domain actually points to notepad++ servers, and the notepad++ update servers would not see any information that would tell them what was happening.

    Likely they picked some specific developers with a known public IP, and only used this to inject those specific people with malware.





  • Disruption is the thing that’s like ideology in this instance. There’s no path for a cult member to disrupt things enough to become the new cult leader. There’s the chain of succession or whatever it’s called, and that relies on the legitimacy of the system to be used. If that legitimacy is disrupted, the only people that can take the lead position will be the people controlling the military, which will be nobody in governance because the commander in chief will be dead.

    This is one reason I guess the ICE budget is getting juice, so that when that change in leadership comes there is some force behind the change.