Before reading this, I assumed the method would involve rewriting large parts of the game's graphics code. But it sounds like the author is intercepting draw calls and changing them to use color instead! Looking forward to the rest of this series.
I was bracing myself for another "don't support Linux because packaging is a mess" post, but was pleasantly surprised. Only 3 of the Linux reported bugs were Linux-specific - all the others were real cross-platform bugs affecting everyone. Free QA, indeed.
Previously I worked on an open source project that pulled in many third party libraries. Users would run their corpo vulnerability scanners on the project and find dependencies with open CVEs and demand fixes, not understanding that in our usage of the libraries, the vulnerability is not exposed.
I think in 4 years, we had users open roughly 50 issues like this, which corresponded to exactly 0 real world exploitable issues.
A central vuln DB makes sense for sysadmins, but too many make it the end-all-be-all.
It sounds like the DOD already does block emails to .ml because of this issue:
> Lt. Cmdr Tim Gorman [...] said that emails sent directly from the .mil domain to Malian addresses “are blocked before they leave the .mil domain and the sender is notified that they must validate the email addresses of the intended recipients”.
I think the issue is people sending emails from personal accounts that the DOD cannot control. The article also mentions travel agents as another source of the email.