I had to help out a client this week because this migration broke their website. Turns out that Squarespace's omain forwarding feature drops query params. This brokes thousands of links. Fun times.

Ya, that's exactly my thought. I had Penitum 1 and Pentium 3/4 during those years. Pretty sure they are 686 and beyond.

Wow, I remember watching this when I was a kid. Thanks for posting this.

Yes, this sshd attack vector isn't possible. However, they haven't decomposed the exploit and we don't know the extent of the attack. The reporter of the issue just scratched the surface. If you are using Arch, you should run pacman right now to downgrade.

liblzma is the problem. sshd is just the first thing they found that it is attacking. liblzma is used by firefox and many other critical packages.

Relevant:

I also prefer the simpler explanation.

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2006/dependency-injection-demystified