You couldn’t pay me to attempt space travel in a Lockheed tincan.

Would not be surprised at all if NASA delays this to next year.

Yeah I know about them, and they were actually the inspiration for Dedsec in Watchdogs, but they shuttered after the FBI caught one and flipped him real quick lol.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think we ever really saw a group like LulzSec again with the same level of notoriety and success.

For the consumer tech yeah that makes sense, but I actually meant for infrastructure and workstations where you would otherwise be using linux.

I really hate that the exaggerated future of Watchdogs is becoming reality but not the exaggerated group of highly experienced black hat hackers doing crazy post compromise shenanigans that would make national news.

The problem is the same reason why a Robin Hood type of character already doesn’t really exist in modern history. There will always be thousands of highly skilled people in defense of the very system you wish to see dissolved.

You would need the resources of at least a highly advanced APT, which often means you’re funded by a nation state which has very specific compromise goals.

Everyone else falls into cybercrime, which is much less sophisticated and is almost always after money.

Hence why most highly publicized attacks end in bitcoin ransoms.

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Also at the risk of giving too much info about my career, big banks are absolutely notorious for having extremely tight security. Even if you managed to jump over the custom EDR, pivot your way through a massive amount of proprietary systems, and land in a suitable position to carry out the motherload of a supply chain attack, the bank could just halt their infrastructure and manually nullify whatever transactions they want with full backing from the government.

The closest I ever hypothetically witnessed was being able to manipulate the loan data for a small credit union. And emphasis on hypothetical, a real attacker would have needed some hard internal access to a heavily restricted subnet.

The only way I can see this successfully happening is like if the Chief Network Architect of say Chase also happened to be a highly competent hacker who uses his decades of experience to formulate a plan with an APT over the course of several years.

I miss unmonetized youtube in general. Too many channels make it big and end up committing to youtube as a profession which leads to burn out or a significant drop in video quality.

Youtube’s (and Facebook) revenue system incentivizes content that gets lots of views in a very short period of time, and way too many people get hooked after seeing the cash flow from a handful of good uploads.

And the revenue provided is a minimized running cost for Google, YouTube takes home a fat 11 billion dollars a year in profit.

FreeBSD is actually pretty mainstream because everyone who doesn’t want to follow GPL or any copy left licenses tends to use it.

Which usually ends up being large companies like Netflix, Sony, or Nintendo.

I seriously would not mind RCS if Google didn’t monopolize it.

I will be forever on MMS because I’ll never use Google’s crappy message app.

No one is sending anything substantial over SMS for me anyway, so it’s not an issue where I need an e2ee channel with someone who doesn’t have signal

Still got nothing on Moonshell 2

You know the funny thing is there’s actually a biblical calculation that puts the end of the world around 204X that several well known Christian Theoloegians calculated including Isaac Newton.

It seems odd to me that fanatics ignore this prediction and insist on accelerating the end times or claim that the rapture is tomorrow.

The other funny thing is all the insane level of violence and corruption that both Christian and Islamic eschatologies warn about in great detail.

If you’re familiar with either source, the irony is astounding. People read a big fat warning about the end times and then decided “We can accelerate this and make it into heaven by playing the explicitly evil guys in this big fat warning”.

I can link to a Research paper with that in the title therefore I am right

I have spent a great deal of time analyzing your feedback

Remember when a couple of critical CVEs went unnoticed and unpatched after disclosure because no one from Microsoft actually reads the insider hub lol.

Sideloading APKs is an easy vector but so is the Google Play Store. It’ll take scammers like 5 minutes to just perma move to GPlay shenanigans, and its already well known to have poor quality control and tons of malware available to download with the useless play protect logo.

This is just Google’s public justification for creating their walled garden. They already pulled this exact scam with Chinese OEMs which is how Huawei got banned, and others stopped selling in the US. They huffed up some story about CCP spyware and then mandated that GPlay be installed in full, otherwise face consequences from congress.

Even Samsung got pulled in and they essentially agreed to use GApps as the de facto communication suite for their phones in exchange for allowing Samsung to continue to use their Galaxy store.

They see stuff like AOSP as a threat because anyone can just fork the OS and make their own non google Android, and they don’t want any OEM to replace GPlay like what Motorola is attempting right now (hence the increased urgency to lock down Android).

Google’s monopoly in the mobile space revolves around every phone using GPlay, so they’ll do anything to maintain their control.

How in the actual hell do you stage a mk82 slamming into the ground?

What did RT roll up to the Russian AirForce and ask them to fly all the way to Lebanon to drop the equivalent payload behind a staged reporter and hope he survives?

I used to rule the world [Unregistered HyperCam 2]

Frontier is the Spirit of budget airlines lol

The fact that CachyOS more or less successfully replaced Manjaro’s purpose I guess is evidence of Manjaro’s issues.

I forgot but I think Bazzite had similar complaints (due to its use of silverblue) in which case it was just more straightforward to use Fedora or OpenSUSE if you don’t want to work with the read only root system.

Downstream distros need to bring additional value to the table to be worth using, otherwise there’s really no need if you can make a package group that accomplishes the same thing in one go.

The real kicker is that this is from people who bet against Iran striking Israel.

Wouldn’t even bet my life Israel’s iron dome is invincible, especially considering Iran already successfully broke through it last year.

Or you know, Gaza a bunch of times with pipe rockets.

The funny thing is this would involve backups which would involve the idea that you can just copy paste Pokemon which is a big no no in Gamefreak’s world and even amongst Pokemon fans who go through insane hoops to transfer Pokemon from old games into new ones lol.