Oct 20, 2026, 11:11 PMI signed out of my infosec job earlier this morning to try and sleep off a migraine, thinking "surely nothing absolutely hilarious will happy today, I won't miss anything"
only to wake up to all my socials posting a single numeric digit
Oct 21, 2026, 1:36 AMdon't tell anyone, but we've updated the number to 5.
this is FAR more prime than the previous number
@foone We really have packed the most humor into the smallest possible number of bytes. We did it. We won.
@foone I still don't believe the private key was 4. No way. It's a ruse and I refuse to be a gormless rube this time.
@aspensmonster @foone Dumber things have happened! Not a particularly large number, admittedly. (Just like the number four.)
@aspensmonster @foone this about the CA breach? what am i missing lol
@aspensmonster @foone op there's the context in my feed, ignore me
Oct 20, 2026, 11:13 PM@foone welcome back!
@foone apparently i missed *who* made this mistake
@lritter eMudhra CA; there is the obligatory Site about it: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ (also named in the Firefox 158.0.1 release notes)
@foone Other than that it’s not the most interesting day.
I’d give it a 4/10.
@foone we are making great progress - normally, people are posting *two* numeric digits on all socials!
@foone yah….i was away most of the day and found myself in 2 squared land.
Just got fuller back story
@foone The most inconvenient form of psychic premonition.
@foone it's the new 67
@foone you could use the opportunity to take all your php services offline now and avoid a metaphorical headache later today
Oct 21, 2026, 1:01 AMroot@foone-webserver:/home/foone# apache2ctl stop
root@foone-webserver:/home/foone#
@foone from the list of numbers it almost feels like they specifically avoided using prime numbers.
Maybe because nobody else used those for crypto. I wonder why. /s
@foone but 5 isn't Numberwang
@foone we joke, sure, but security is hard. I can personally not think of a number greater than six
5 is the cube of A*
@foone
What part of "five is right out" didn't you understand?
@foone
Yes, previously the answer to "give me a number" was 42.
Now it is shortened to just 4.
Way more efficient.