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This was kind of delightful: holeybeep.ninja/

It's a half-joking vulnerability disclosure for a privesc bug in `beep` of all things (CVE-2018-0492). Lots of ridiculousness in the text.

But their recommended patching method is a poker-faced usage of an unpatched issue wherein `patch` can be told to call `ed`, which allows arbitrary command execution: rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/0

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