Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.
Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
I try to post as sincerely as possible.
Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.
The Great Game continues, same as it always has.
The true final exam would be writing code on an airgapped system.
Gee. What a surprise.
No.
So it factored a trivial (22 bit) RSA key.
1024-bit RSA has been deprecated for years. 2048-bit RSA is the recommended minimum.
Interesting. Not quite worrisome.
There’s always money to be made in hurting people. It’s part of the human condition.
They’re making way more out of hurting people than they are off of us.
And study the techniques used for currency manipulation, fraud, and so forth.
They’re making bank off of it. Next question.
Gee. It’s almost as if rich people don’t give a single shit about anyone else. /s
Like wrecking the biosphere in its persuit.
So, blaming the victim.
How do we keep having to have these legal discussions every decade or so?
Google pulled it off with GChat. All told, those of us who run our own XMPP servers aren’t even a rounding error when compared to everybody who uses Google Chat, FB Chat, Slack…
Interoperate with it. Add proprietary extensions faster than other implementations can keep up with (at least two orders of mag). Render software that isn’t yours unusable by suddenly cutting over to something else internally; let connection attempts continue for a while to frustrate users while simultaneously releasing your own. Then cut away all points where legacy connection attempts could be done.
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
And make sure they hear about it in such a way that it seems interesting. The fediverse doesn’t use any basic marketing plan techniques, and enough people are conditioned to them (after a lifetime of growing up surrounded by advertising on television and in their spaces) that anything which doesn’t fit that template scoots right by.
Power cells are batteries. I keep forgetting that not everybody’s worked for Ultium Cells.
They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.