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☀ Commemorated today: The Miracle of Operation Tovar (2014)Saint Ripple20, Who Rippled the Supply Chain
Patron of embedded TCP/IP libraries, devices nobody will ever update, and waves that travel far.
Life
In June 2020 researchers at JSOF revealed nineteen vulnerabilities in the Treck TCP/IP stack, a small library hidden for decades inside printers, infusion pumps, UPSes and industrial machinery from dozens of vendors. Some allowed remote code execution with a well-crafted packet. The name comes from the ripple effect: one stone dropped into a single supplier, and the waves reach hundreds of millions of devices.
Prayer
O Saint Ripple20, who shakes a thousand companies from one small stack, let every vendor know what is inside its firmware. Amen.
How to celebrate
Celebrated by updating the Treck stack, asking vendors for an SBOM and skipping a stone across a pond to see how far it goes.
Small stone, long ripple.