Graphomania (an obsession with writing books) takes on the proportions of a mass epidemic whenever a society develops to the point where it can provide three basic conditions: 1. A high degree of general well-being to enable people to devote their energies to useless activities; 2. An advanced state of social atomization and the resultant general feeling of the isolation of the individual; 3. A radical absence of significant social change in the internal development of the nation.
Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all.
There is more than enough written on the mechanics of and mitigations for the recent severe RCE in log4j. On prevention, this is the most interesting widely-reshared insight I have seen: