Friday Squid Blogging: Unpatched Vulnerabilities in the Squid Caching Proxy

In a rare squid/security post, here’s an article about unpatched vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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Tags: computer security, patching, proxies, squid, vulnerabilities, web

Posted on November 17, 2023 at 5:01 PM • 117 Comments

emily’s post • November 20, 2023 6:43 AM

@ JonKnowsNothing

It’s everywhere.

Yet the most successful large scale social and governmental organization of all time, the Roman Republic (SPQR™) and later Empire did not do it this way. Estimated lifetime (
for many items with routine maintenance 2000 yrs + . [1]

There must be an engineering discipline that designs things so naturally wearing parts that must wear are economical to repair.

1. For those that can get along in Italian, or in auto-CC, see Scripta Manent

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdSELFnsKyXHwDvpjhOeegw

nobody • November 21, 2023 3:39 AM

@Winter
I do not share your religion.

I totally agree with you.
We will be able to create (if not already) an artificial neuron similar to human one.
We will be able to wire (if not already) these artificial neurons in a way similar to the human brain.
The problem is not if we could, it is if we should.
Because if we manage to achieve this, then: how they will be different to us? What about ethical implications?
Imagine that you can be disconnected at any time, or totally destroyed. You have no rights because you are just a “machine” and of course you are not alive because you have no “soul”. You live in constant fear, you cannot end your life and you can be force to live like this basically for as long as they wish.
Human horrors beyond comprehension

nobody • November 21, 2023 5:11 AM

The concept of “soul” is very interesting. It is something that cannot be measured so its existence cannot be proved but more importantly, cannot be disproved either.
But let’s try using a little logic:
Does a virus have a soul? Does a bacteria, a monkey, a human?
If I am not wrong most religions will tell you that only humans have soul.
But I hope all here believe in evolution theory, so humans evolved from a monkey (who has no soul) to a human (who has a soul).
Can somebody explain to me when and how exactly along this evolution path human got its soul?