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2 posts tagged #architecture.
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Analysis · May 1, 2026 · Colten Anderson
The most dangerous sentence in a code comment is 'this should never happen'
From Therac-25 to CrowdStrike, the same pattern keeps producing catastrophic failures: an engineer reasons that a condition is impossible, skips the guard, and the system outgrows the assumption.
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Analysis · Apr 30, 2026 · Colten Anderson
CVE-2026-41940 isn't just a cPanel bug. It's a design assumption that shipped for a decade.
A CRLF injection in cPanel's session writer gave attackers unauthenticated root in four requests. The fix landed. The architecture question hasn't. Updated May 4 with exploitation scale: 44,000+ hosts compromised, ransomware, botnet, and state-sponsored campaigns confirmed.