520

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520,

Am a professional pentester/red teamer. You hit the nail on the head.

Pentesting is not all about the shit you can hack. A big part of it is presenting a professional face that suits can trust.

That is fundamentally incompatible with compulsively attacking and leaking billions of dollars worth of shit

520, (edited )

They aren't talking about his autism. They're talking about his compulsion to do these acts. People, even autistics, don't go as far as he did to hack things while already under surveillance. That isn't an autism thing, something else is there.

520,

His career in white hat cybersecurity is shot to fuck. No one will trust him enough after this

520, (edited )

Yea, but the nerds that the suits put in charge of security will absolutely recognize this kids skills.

They will also recognise how much of a potential threat he is.

The suits don’t run the security teams at most corpos.

The suits absolutely do run the security teams. Very indirectly, but they do. The suits are the ones security teams have to persuade to get any sort of funding and they can and will veto a hiring decision like this.

You are correct that in most places, the suits do not usually directly intervene. Usually there is a lead guy in the security team that handles the conversations with the suits.

In a well functioning security unit, there is some trust there but not nearly enough to hire a kid like this. A veto is seen as a politically risky manoeuvre for a suit but it would absolutely be pulled for the prospect of hiring this kid, with some frankly compelling justification that any team lead would find nearly impossible to get around.

I've worked in several corporations in several security teams in the past, some amazing, some god-awful with insane suit meddling.

520,

An 18 yo isn't gonna get fat stacks of green as a pentester.

The suits that decide salaries have different priorities. Like certs that are out of the price range of a teenager and years of professional experience.

520, (edited )

Mostly true in normal cases. If you’re really talented there is a market for you, always.

In this case, that market is the black market. In the regular market, no head of security wants to be responsible for a potential critical breach by hiring such a wild cannon.

His only possible path would have been to show remorse after the attacks. He shot that in the ass, or at least made his job much harder in that respect, by pulling another attack while in police custody.

520, (edited )

It could be something as simple as needing to feel powerful in their space. That's something a lot of people, autistic or not, can fall prey to, but it is more prevalent in introverts without a wide range of healthy social circles.

Think about it, how ballsy do you have to be to do an attack while in police custody? You pull that off, you're going down as a fucking legend in black hat circles.

520,

This wasn't carelessness. This was a deliberate.

520, (edited )

This kid deserves a 7-8 digits salary as a pentester, not prison; plenty of pentesting companies would hire him in a heartbeat.

You're forgetting a vitally important part of being a pentester.

Namely that they need to be trusted not to leak billions of dollars worth of trade secrets.

This kid is a prodigy as a black hat, but he'd be an embarrassment as a pentester.

520,

Like I get it, the guy's got talent, and he stuck it to the man...

Except what he's actually done is leaked decades of hard work by many talented people that do deserve to see a return on their efforts.

You can point to wages and working conditions but shit like this don't solve those problems

520, (edited )

To be fair to those two:

  • Mitnick did much what he did before hacking was even a crime, and almost all of it before offensive cybersecurity was even a viable career option.
  • the damage caused by the entirety of ShadowCrew (4000 odd members) was a drop in the bucket compared to that caused by this single kid
  • neither of them had compulsion issues that would cause them to attempt to hack even while under surveillance.
520,

the UK cannot be included, because they aren’t a Schengen-member and the EU doesn’t want customs checks on their train lines…

Ireland is also not a member of the Schengen agreement...

520,

It's the Daily Express, an offshoot of the Daily Mail. They both have ridiculously anti EU slants and have had those for decades

520,

There is no such thing as a 'stable' Wayland interface. Each compositor is responsible for their own interfaces, the Wayland protocol is there to make sure that applications written for Wayland play nicely with them.

520,

X.Org developers moved to Wayland, they were the ones who made it happen.

But did they bring the same mistakes with them?

520, (edited )

If you can self host, you can run a custom cloud instance.

520, (edited )

The main use case of this is in porting. So if someone wanted to make a native port of their game, this library would make it potentially much easier.

520, (edited )

IIRC the main DXVK dev does this for debugging purposes.

As to why it might be faster, it depends on the DX implementation and what it's being transformed into. If the original DX implementation, especially pre-DX12, is wasteful in terms of instructions, and DXVK knows of a better way to do the exact same thing in Vulkan, it can potentially offset the translation costs.

520,

It's good you were able to get out of that abusive situation and into something better. Congratulations, my friend :)

520,

It really did! It's a decent boost to my savings for sure

520,

Aww congrats dude :)

520, (edited )

And that's fine. VLC does their own implementation of codecs so that's not an issue. It's the patents that make it an issue.

520,

Context:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-killing-all-these-stories-about-rajat-khare-controversial-tech-mogul

520,

Bruh, it's a bit much to be buying a whole ass new handset for.

520,

Way to spoil season 1 for me!

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