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THIS IS NOT LINUX

This domain name is misleading. Here is why that works.

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THE NOTICE

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    NOTES

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    I did not invent this name or bend a single letter to get it. I typed it into a registrar, found it unclaimed, and four minutes later it was mine. A name that reads like an official source was sitting there for anyone, and that is the part worth thinking about.

    The certificate serving this page is valid, free, and issued in seconds. It proves that I control this name. It never claimed to prove that I am worth trusting, and every credential-harvesting page you will ever open has one exactly like it.

    Re:Zero’s Witch of Greed wanted to know everything, and wanted it for no reason beyond the knowing. Security research runs on that same engine; the appetite is not the problem and never was. The problem is forgetting that the attack you are studying was built by someone with the identical hunger, pointed one degree differently.

    There is no tracker, no pixel, and no log on this page. I do not know how many of you are reading this, and I decided that not knowing is the correct amount of curiosity to give up.

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    CONSOLE

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