Can’t tell if that would have helped

which could have allowed the malicious actors to redirect some of the traffic going to https://notepad-plus-plus.org/getDownloadUrl.php to their own servers

They could have just piped the binaries though the same server since they had this level of access. They would have had months to figure it out.

Expanding on this: the exploit was against their domain name, redirecting selected update requests away from the notepad++ servers. The software itself didn’t validate that the domain actually points to notepad++ servers, and the notepad++ update servers would not see any information that would tell them what was happening.

Likely they picked some specific developers with a known public IP, and only used this to inject those specific people with malware.

Isn’t self deport a plane ticket to where you want, on your own time and with your own money?

Oooh home assistant integration with frigate, I’ll check it out.

Zoneminder/ Shinobi for Linux seems to be the software, and milestone is free up to eight camera channels if you only have a Windows box to run the cameras (I’m a dealer, so if you’re a Windows person and you get lost ask me how.)