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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: omfg who the fuck got bloomberg to put that stupid lined paper background. what, they think ima think they're moar professional like this ?
mircea_popescu: i guess it's the fate of the aspiring 14% to never know what actually sunk their decade of effort.
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: and guess what... "Vlad likes long romantic walks on the beach, e-mail him sweet nothings to vlad@tsyrklevich.net using his gpg key." links to keybase.
mircea_popescu: they had to pick between opening webcam studio, call center or "security firm" and not able to find the female lips of either kind for either of the first two settled on what sweaty balls could do.
mircea_popescu: i would say Vlad Tsyrklevich thoroughly vindicates my side in the original discussio re these schmucks.
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: buncha fucking amateurs this world is made out of i swear.
mircea_popescu: "Several of these forwards included a PDF with VBI's entire exploit portfoli"
mircea_popescu: "Exploit portfolios: VBI regularly sent portfolio updates to its customers. Though they were encrypted, Hacking Team's habit of forwarding encrypted messages unencrypted means that many of them are accessible. "
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: s, like Gamma International and NSO Group, prominently advertised their 0day capabilities, forcing Hacking Team to be defensive with prospective customers."
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: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel so talk to her, odds are she'll do it.
mircea_popescu: and obviously, zdrav-an, ie, zdrav-like = strong, hearthy.
mircea_popescu: (jack of cards is fante in romanian; young man about town idem).
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell funkenstein_ hey weren't you pretending to be a dwarf ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me jungle is everywhere cut down by diesel engines.
mircea_popescu is looking forward to his friends building own cars, will have inexhaustible supply of french fries thusly.
mircea_popescu: trinque what is this, "i'll date once i'm rich enough for it to work" ?
mircea_popescu: ie : when it works you didn't need it, and when it doesn't it doesn't help you anyway.
mircea_popescu: i can and have. it works as well as you'd expect, if you thinkj about it.
mircea_popescu: much like the alchemists of yore tricked the kings of yore
mircea_popescu: fuck revolution, i want a computer that does what i mean.
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.
mircea_popescu: i thought finns drank fermented herring and what is this "beer".
mircea_popescu: or that other time when he thought he had lost and well... the officers carried ?
mircea_popescu: heh. know about that one time he forgot about a coupla divisions ?
mircea_popescu: im enamoured with this ballas notion - 1%, 14% aspies, 85% derps.
mircea_popescu: you know, incidentally, im not so sure that 99.999% figure.
mircea_popescu: problem is - you'll prolly start a revolution by first building a country.
mircea_popescu: but it seems a lot to me like making my own car. holy shit i'd much rather have a car someone else toiled with.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i want my own daughter. i suppose i should table this until i somehow have one,
mircea_popescu: but, provided you don't actually die. what. do. you. do.
mircea_popescu: and that "acquired" part is a lot of time and a lot of resources and so on.
mircea_popescu: an acquired taste. not something one can just jump into.