mircea_popescu: sure, mandarins didn't use to. but then bitcoin happened and we've wrounght a trail of destruction the likes of which

mircea_popescu: this is like saying "he's a nigger which makes him a thief"

mircea_popescu: which you know he isn't, because you assume so and that makes it a fact. meanwhilke you aren't, but you asume you aree, because idem.

mircea_popescu: wasn't he super-hotshot and whatnot a eyar ago ?

mircea_popescu: and i'll say this to assuage your doubts : i am the man who said "you are not safe, for we know where you live". a year and change later, reality has borne my saying : the entire usg employee list, leaked. etc. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: or otherwise get beaten to shit, on a weekly basis,.

mircea_popescu: the situation is quite exactly like that of the "16 yo with a hot ass owned and operated by her dad". yeah, it's true he made it. and it';s also true that his choices are, either suck up to me when i show up and offer me drinks

mircea_popescu: it's a foregone conclusion, they may operate it, but only for us.

mircea_popescu: this is why i say " within a decade we will see full area denial in the sense that no govt anything will still run online.". they're simply too weak and ineffectual to do anything that matters, and even they know it. by 2025 internet will be exactly like iraq for the usg.

mircea_popescu: "i mean i get it, frantic activity as a cover for YOUR FUCKING IMPOTENCE, but really... get to terms with it already".

mircea_popescu: it's sorta like the guy who does a lube job for the unmarked police car which the cop driving was using to steal coke from the evidence room.

mircea_popescu: what if he had bought a cow ?

mircea_popescu: here is the case : 1. us marshall got a friend of his to intall a cryptolocker on the office computer.

mircea_popescu: in any case : the front against the usg in the cyber world is only going to strengthen the way it's going. within a decade we will see full area denial in the sense that no govt anything will still run online. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: half a day of this shit, you're willing to pay money to anyone shooting that way.

mircea_popescu: "the victims" aka government agents, who both provide the holes and the payments, are a-ok.

mircea_popescu: "Additionally, the FBI said that the Murgio sold bitcoins to victims of ransomware attacks such as Cryptowall. " << yeah, like various USG offices, including if memory serves a sherrif. i suppose this is now a crime, right ? selling bitcoin to the derps. them using public funds to pay the ransom IS FINE!

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo "Yet, in the situation where the very fabric and reliability of the Internet at large is threatened it is no one prerogative care that they are offering on open Denial of Service attack amplifier on their connection." i think you accidentally a verb.

mircea_popescu: of course, this looks a lot more like someone not knowing their way around a netstat dump than a legitimate thing. because i don't imagine torrents work so that a computer ever advertises itself as localhost.

mircea_popescu: ly doing so from the same machine used detect and prepare a report on infringement for Universal."

mircea_popescu: "On the 15th of this month Universal Pictures France filed a takedown request with Google (archived) demanding they remove from results sites hosting or linking pirated copies of Jurassic World. Among the addresses Universal demanded Google sanction was 127.0.0.1 which is the IP address a computer reserves for communicating with itself. This means that not only was Universal seeding its own film to pirates, it was like

mircea_popescu: " In June, JPMorgan reassigned Chief Information Security Officer Greg Rattray amid staff discord over his handling of the breach. Rattray and his boss, Jim Cummings, a former head of the U.S. Air Force’s cyber-combat unit, were the chief advocates of the theory that the Russian government was involved in the breach"

mircea_popescu: The two are also identified in a previously unreported FBI memo that connects them to the investigation of the hack of JPMorgan as well as to incidents at Fidelity Investments Ltd. and E*Trade Financial Corp. JPMorgan officials argued initially that one of the largest U.S. bank hacks in history was the work of the Russian government."

mircea_popescu: "Though these are separate cases, some of the individuals are linked. A principal in the alleged securities-fraud scheme is a business associate of one of those charged in the Florida bitcoin operation, a friendship dating back more than a decade to their days at Florida State University.

mircea_popescu: too bad for him, he put all this effort into writing a neat article in the hopes of maybe impressing people, he's almost there and then he shoots his sale in the head with stupid associations like that.

mircea_popescu: was unable to turn this into a working exploit. It was discovered in October of 2013 and VUPEN used the same bug to win Pwn2Own in May of 2014."

mircea_popescu: "Fuzzer results: Though Rosario's fuzzers found numerous crashing test cases, like most fuzzer outputs few of them appeared exploitable. One of the first crashes that looked exploitable was an IE10 memory corruption that was patched within a week of its discovery. Soon after, Rosario found a Firefox crash that looked exploitable but only appeared to occur under memory pressure. Despite months of analysis, Hacking Team

mircea_popescu: "Rosario is an Italian security researcher with specializations in browser security and fuzzing. [...] During this time he primarily focused on fuzzing SVG, XSLT, and XPath. He was paid $3.5k EUR per month" << alright ? guy made 50k a year. thinkaboutit. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "Several of these forwards included a PDF with VBI's entire exploit portfoli"

mircea_popescu: "Hacking Team's CTO claimed that VUPEN “burned” their (presumably unsold) vulnerabilities after a set period of time to move the exploit market; putting their deployments in jeopardy." doh.

mircea_popescu: "As a result, their 0day providers tended to be small and unestablished. Some established exploit vendors, like VUPEN and COSEINC, did offer to sell Hacking Team exploits, but they were predominantly overpriced, second-rate, and not even 0day. As a result, Hacking Team was seriously exploit supply constrained because they had difficulty finding suppliers that they deemed reliable and reasonably priced. Their competitor

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-07-2015#1210625 << works spelndidly for a tank, that. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell funkenstein_ hey weren't you pretending to be a dwarf ?

mircea_popescu: i hjave a thing ?!

mircea_popescu: fuck revolution, i want a computer that does what i mean.

mircea_popescu: i had a brilliant concept for a watch

mircea_popescu: trinque as a boy, i was very distraught to find from my mother that if one invents something, he doesn't merely have to say what it should be ☟︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. intelligence not impeached. just, there's this entire "genius" myth built around him because it was a particular time in the letters.

mircea_popescu: alf has a good point, there IS an appeal to making own car.