While there are vast numbers of people (including self taught teenagers) who know how to hack into websites or even write malware, the global total number of people who can independently build the tools to remotely hack into a patched modern smartphone is in the order of a few dozen, at most
Now that I can say more, any further questions?
He did 🙃
People keep talking about how we used to live in a high-trust society and now we don’t. They blame it for our politics. Maybe they’re right. Some politician wants to fix it in a tangible way? Promise to make these phone scams go away.
ציוץ מהחשבון הרשמי של הבית הלבן בטוויטר. אמריקה בדרך למטה.
Nothing if the software stack doesn't allow you to use it :)
I'm preparing for a post-AGI world, where my only way to feed my kids will be blackjack+card-counting in Gaz-a-lago
H/t to @houmus.org
Channeling the bay area
I did not have the destruction of the world's biggest intelligence community on my 2025 bingo card
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Under current US law, if you founded a company and it has become very successful and you own a lot of its stock, there’s really no reason for you to pay taxes. You don’t have to take a salary, and the company doesn’t have to pay dividends (it can just reinvest profits in its business), so you don’t pay taxes on any cash flows from the company.[3] You also don’t have to sell any stock, so you don’t pay any capital gains taxes. How do you buy groceries? Well, classically, a bank will lend you a bunch of money secured by your stock, at a fairly low interest rate (because the loan is pretty safe), and you use that money to buy groceries and houses and yachts and things. The loan is not a taxable event. You never really have to pay it back: You just borrow more to fund your lifestyle (and to pay the interest on the loan), and if your company keeps succeeding, the loan compounds at a lower rate than your stock. You keep this up for the rest of your life, and then when you die your heirs can sell some of your stock to pay back the loan. And they don’t pay any tax on the stock sale, because they get a “basis step-up.” This strategy is sometimes called “buy, borrow, die.”[4]
Started reading @matt-levine.bsky.social's Money Stuff newsletter to learn about investing, but instead it has radicalized me by teaching me how rich people don't pay taxes.
Yes, as they said they would. No surprises
I live in a bubble where this rarely happens. But I know I'm in a bubble
So I'm not sure about perfect. For medium sized networks, attackers need to win but they're not with a five minute win. Defenders own the home ground.
For small networks, sure
Oh. I agree. We really need to turn more problems into technical challenges which we can solve.
So I believe we can automate a lot of the baseline stuff. Not 80/20, yes 60/40.
One of my pet beliefs is this is no longer true.
For example, disabling smbv1 is painful but methodically simple. Long but not risky
I agree with the entire thread.
But I'd argue that the weak spot is, at heart many attacks are repeatable and defenses need to be unique.
We assume that networks repeat themselves. At some scale, maybe. In practice, millions of unique snowflakes
But it's more complicated than that. We've created an ecosystem that is disaggregated so even when solutions are known, implementing them is a endeavor unique to every environment
It was the best of times, it was the warez of times.
It was the age of beige PCs, it was the age of IRC.
It was the epoch of ASCII, it was the epoch of 1337 speak.
It was the season of LAN, it was the season of dial-up.
It was the spring of goatse, it was the winter of dotcom.
Had a solution, this was simply funny when I was discussing it with a director at MS
A screenshot of the start menu showing 3 installations of Microsoft Teams, one tagged Personal, one classic and one "work or school"
It's been a few years, I still don't understand why I have 3 different teams applications on my machine.
Goes without saying none of them managed to connect to a Teams call and I ended up using the browser.
#justwarzonethings
One of my daily commutes goes through a GPS jammer. It's never not funny to see how badly navigation is confused
Who uses the internet to shit post :)
That requires the democrats to actively act like the situation is not normal
Bkuesky made it, the onlyfans bots have arrived
מי הוא מי? מזכיר שלקח שנים אחרי הטט שזה יגמר
On the review board we have @sherrod.bsky.social @dwizzzle.bsky.social and @chompie.rip @hasherezade.bsky.social and many others I can't find here
