fucking around, finding out
why did you fuck
around with me
to find out what
you already knew,
that I will always
come when you call,
answer when you ask,
listen when you speak?
why did I fuck
around with you
to find out what
I already knew too,
that you won't?
— Amy Isikoff Newell, December 2023.
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If you have no idea what I’m talking about with the minecraft ransomware subtitle, it’s an obscure joke about a security hole in something called log4j that affected, among practically everything else, minecraft, a couple years back, and I wrote about it here:
Actually I found all these poems written in the sky in a Minecraft world by an unknown attacker exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. They have taken control of the Minecraft world, and said if I didn’t post all the poems on the internet they would never let me have it back and I put a lot of effort into building a functioning supercomputer inside my Minecraft world and the supercomputer is currently busy minting NFTs for me so I really don’t have much choice.