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Re:Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects ma... by vanschelven on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:34AM (#50230531)
Should have definitely been Brotli2Shell, but Google ingeniously managed to dodge that bullet by having NodeJS come out with a fix before they did (others might call that accidental exposure), and then barely communicating about that with the broader community once they finally did. Here's a timeline of events[0] and here's me more broadly complaining about Google's stance[1]

[0] https://www.bugsink.com/blog/http2shell-timeline/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230362

Re:Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects ma... by francisduvivier on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:38AM (#50232718)
Bro2Shell sounds better though
Re:Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects ma... by DaSHacka on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:42AM (#50232766)
It will never not amuse me that Mozilla changed the Brotli extension to avoid this very connotation

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559#c147