Notices by Marcus Hutchins :verified: (malwaretech@infosec.exchange), page 2

@GossiTheDog Is it really a security incident though? There was no evidence snowflake itself was breached

@ryanc in California it takes a long time to legally evict residents, so at that point I'm just squatting in the apartment for the next 6 months until they can process an eviction order.

@GossiTheDog It's so dumb. You get to pick which cult you want to be a part of and the options are basically just "drive off a cliff at full speed" or "drive off a cliff while abiding by the legal speed limit"

I really don't know how to deal with these extremely frugal upper middle class people. It's like the most infuriating thing on earth. They have the money to afford to do what they want, don't have to worry about making rent, but instead decide to board the working class strugglebus for literally no reason. Why?

I asked ChatGPT to generate C code to covert a string to base64. Who can spot the vulnerability?

(Posted this on LinkedIn but still nobody has found it yet).

@dalias We have a winner.

@JesseEmond @dalias wchars are 2 bytes each

That clip of Biden supporters drownings out protestors calling for a Gaza ceasefire by chanting "4 more years" is some pretty dystopian shit. Between that and Pelosi claiming everyone is a Russian plant, it feel like the options for 2024 are literally just gonna be MAGA or MAGA lite.

It's extremely funny to see US senators parroting the conspiracy that the Chinese version of TikTok only promotes positive & educational content whereas the US version is addictive and harmful.

The conspiracy comes from the fact that the Chinese version of TikTok has a mandatory "kids mode" enforced for anyone under 14, which imposes time limits and content restrictions, as a result of strong regulatory pressure from the Chinese government.

Like twice a year US congress makes the TikTok CEO fly in from Singapore so they can yell at him and ask why the Chinese version of TikTok (Which he has nothing to do with) is regulated, whereas the US version is not, as if congress isn't entirely responsible for making said regulations, but were instead too busy eating lead paint and being xenophobic.

I hate that I'm now a frequent user of ChatGPT. It's not that it's good, it's just that Google has become so unbelievably useless that it's near impossible to get usable results. It's like they've reverted to pure keyword based search. I just get results that (sometimes) contain my search terms, but not relevant to the context of my search.

@mttaggart As far as I'm aware there has never been any policy that cyber attacks are treated as fundamentally different to kinetic ones. A lot of the public have this idea in their head that cyber should only be responded to with cyber, but that has never been the case. There is absolutely no difference between a cyber attack on, say, a power grid, and blowing up substations. Both the intent and effect is the same, the means by which the attack is orchestrated literally does not matter at all.

The entire idea of "cyber war" is logically incoherent nonsense imo.

@bontchev @mttaggart WannaCry did cause billions in damages and still didn't result in a kinetic response. Also I can assure you the kind of attribution they are doing before a serious response is not "oh look, it came from a computer in China".

@bontchev @mttaggart I don't think NotPetya was cyber criminals, I think it was directly deployed by RU intelligence, they only tried to make it look like Petya so it'd just seem like ransomware gone wrong.

@bontchev @mttaggart You're assuming that all intel operators are A tier, and that they're trying their best to hide. This was during a time when Russia was sending operatives into Ukraine to stir up trouble and having them "disguise" themselves by removing the name badges on their standard issue RU military uniforms.

Here's to hoping my computer skills get me drafted into the cyber army, or my lack of any other skills get me disqualified for the regular one. I wasn't build for fighting, I need wifi and pizza delivery

After a year off Twitter, I'm surprised that I don't have even a single regret about leaving. The more I think about it, the more I realize it wasn't the takeover that did it. Sure, there was a massive and harmful political shift, but there's just always been something about the platform that attracts extremely unhealed people regardless of political leaning.

You can make a post like "I just got a coffee and the milk was sour" then someone on the right will be like "Biden's border crisis is the reason we can't get good milk anymore" and then someone on the left will be like "do you think starving children in Africa would complain about sour milk?". Eventually, you just realize the platform is designed for people who's only form of therapy is logging on to the internet and being annoying as fuck.

We haven't done any layoffs, we just happened to relocate our office to the worst state in the US, resulting in many of our employees leaving.

Am I the only one who feels like still using employment rate as a metric for a healthy economy is basically just gaslighting at this point?

Employment used to mean you had a good chance of affording a home, maybe two kids, and potentially even on just a single income. Now you can have a full time job and still need food stamps or a side job just to pay bills.

Then of course, because salaries are so low relative to the cost of living, it makes employment numbers look even better because people who wouldn't have been forced to work now are. You have households where both parents have full time jobs, people with disabilities forced to work because they can't cover bills, students dropping out of college because it's now unaffordable.

Then some goober economist comes on TV and goes "well, unemployment is at record lows so obviously everything is fine"

@Slyence @gom standard emotional reactionary argument with no substance only whataboutism

@rcs only if you're rich enough to avoid the taxes all together, otherwise you're paying millions for literally nothing.