Silver Sparrow

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Both versions of Silver Sparrow have an extraneous Mach-O binary that appears to play no additional role in their execution.

I really connected with this book and the characters. Maybe I've come across people who were similar. Maybe I know some of those qualities. Maybe I recognize them. Maybe some of the situations, relationships, quotes are reminiscent of things that I've experienced, witnessed, heard about. There was a real connection.The first version of Silver Sparrow malware ( updater.pkg MD5: 30c9bc7d40454e501c358f77449071aa) that we analyzed contained an extraneous Mach-O binary ( updater MD5: c668003c9c5b1689ba47a431512b03cc), compiled for Intel x86_64 that appeared to play no additional role in the Silver Sparrow execution. Ultimately this binary seems to have been included as placeholder content to give the PKG something to distribute outside the JavaScript execution. It simply says, “Hello, World!” (literally!) v1 Image Credit: Erika Noerenberg And while the story focuses on the two daughters, I'm not sure I really grasped the point of it. The narrative feels cohesive, but ultimately leading nowhere. And when it finally gets to the crux of the matter, it ends abruptly without really resolving anything. And maybe that is the point of it, that there is no resolution to such a complex set of issues, but that's not very satisfying to me as a reader. Other signs of sophistication are evident in the malware’s construction. For instance, to start its installation, Silver Sparrow uses the macOS Installer JavaScript API to execute suspicious commands, the analysis found. That’s an unusual approach, according to Red Canary. This is my first book I've read by Tayari Jones. I enjoyed it very much. The majority of story takes place during the 1980s in Atlanta. "Atlanta ain't nothing but a country town".

Silver Sparrow is very likely an adware, according to researchers at Red Canary. It has two versions – one that targets Intel-based Macs, and one that is built to infect both the older and M1-based devices. Most notably, it uses JavaScript for execution – a rarity in the macOS malware world. Jones herself is a child of a second marriage, although “there is no scandal there,” she clarifies. “My father is not a bigamist. But I also say to people, ‘My father is not a bigamist that I know of. Just as your father is not a bigamist that you know of.’ That’s part of the mystery of fatherhood.” She has two sisters, but they lived “600 miles away”, while Jones grew up with their father. “I’ve always wondered what their lives were like; what they thought of me; what they thought of the family that I grew up in,” Jones says. “I wrote Silver Sparrow as a gift to my sisters.” Chaurisse is meek and innocent. Her part of the story is amazing in its illumination. What one girl saw was totally different from what the other experienced. Jones writes different points-of-view in such a way that you want to re-read what the other sister experienced. What I loved most of this novel is when I read Chaurisse’s part, and what I thought as fact from Dana’s part becomes gray. I do love stories that show the messiness of life, the differences of perspective, the well-intentioned acts turning wrong. And this story provides that in spades.In Silver Sparrow, we follow two sisters with different mothers who share the same father. The girls are kept away from each other. They grow up in seemingly similar circumstances, but their father's disparate treatment of them results in different lives for the two of them. When their paths finally intersect, it leads to the unraveling of their father's carefully crafted families.