How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?
Summary
A DEFCON-stage kernel bug in UNIX domain sockets causes a deterministic crash during SSH session setup due to a 0 vs incremented inode bug in uipc_sense. The article traces its kernel-history roots in XNU and BSD, and discusses why inode handling for UNIX domain sockets has persisted for decades. It highlights implications for kernel IPC debugging and secure software demos.