Thanks! Same to you!

exactly

You must have many friends, with charm like that

Good point

How?

He hoped the beeper didn’t go off though, isn’t that the opposite of “I hope you die”?

Still not a good thing to say. Even if one were to believe him that it was a joke, it would still be pretty horrendous

You sound frustrated with the situation and how none of the paths you can think of seem viable. It also sounds like you feel alone and disconnected because you feel you can’t talk to the people close to you about this issue…

One thing you could try would be to write the problem down, park it for right now and try to do something that makes you feel better, or something that helps you feel connected to the people close to you.

It won’t directly solve the problem, but it might break you out of walking in circles. Sometimes the brain comes up with better ideas when you give it a bit of time

the in depth technical details

TL;DR; sigalarm handler calls syslog which isn’t safe to call from a signal handler context.

Their example exploit needed about 10k attempts to get a remote shell so it’s not fast or quiet, but a neat find regardless