RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116003657697941309
There were lots of folks in MS when I was there who were willing to tell management that this was a mistake. They were the ones given lower bonuses and told that they needed to get behind the corporate priorities. Some of them found niches where they could work on something they found interesting without management noticing, a lot more left. The people who were promoted were the ones who either had terrible judgement or were willing to lie to management.
The board needs to hold Satya Nadella and Kevin Scott accountable for creating that environment. If not, shareholders might start asking why 20% of the company’s value was wiped out in six months.
Schrödinger’s Cat is the most misunderstood meme in physics.
Pop-science says: “The cat is both alive and dead.”
Schrödinger said: “That’s absurd!” (He called it a 'burlesque case').
He created the experiment to prove quantum mechanics was incomplete, not to celebrate "weirdness." If a theory suggests a cat is smeared between life and death, it's missing a piece of reality.
Stop the mysticism. Schrödinger wanted a better map of the real world.
#Physics #Science #schrodinger
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116001950411560304
My CVEs are still at 0 medals, but thanks to VxWorks I was able to achieve a CVE on Mars (#Curiosity rover, CVE-2023-38346) 😉
Btw. if anyone from #NASA could confirm curiosity was/is really affected (but probably without attack vector so no impact I guess), that would mean a lot to me
One of many talks I missed for not going to #fosdem, happy to watch them online now! “ga68, the GNU Algol 68 compiler at FOSDEM 2026” — https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=42rOV7mBd1E
The cathartic effect of reverse engineering without a business objective should have its own therapy book.
One of our AI threat team pointed me at this:
https://zenodo.org/records/18444900
Interesting analysis of Moltshite.
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According to the Epstein files, he had a "personal hacker" working for him. The FBI document says Epstein's personal hacker was an "Italian citizen born in Calabria who developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments."
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01683874.pdf
"[Redacted] sold a zero-day to Hebollah. [Redacted] was known as the first person to hack and find vulnerabilities in Blackberries and iOS. He was known for finding Firefox vulnerabilities. [Redacted] former company was acquired by CrowdStrike in fall of 2017 and was currently a vice president there."
"S//NF= was very good at finding vulnerabilities was friends with "old school" European hackers. "Received a trunk of cash from Hezbollah when was in Italy; drove the money to Switzerland and deposited it in another ba [redacted]. [redacted] owned a theater company in California and he used the theater company to launder his zeroday money
"Made six figures from the sale of his zero-days. He sold his tools to United Kingdom GCHQ and provided training to the organization. He also sold his zero-days to a Central African government, as well as Hezbollah for political reasons. The Italian Government asked for help, but [redacted] declined because he felt the Government was incompetent. Calabria was mob-controlled an did not have much loyalty for his birth country.
"[Redacted] sold his exploits to the United States and United Kingdom, but he would not sell to Asian countries because he a is racist. He was also anti-Semitic. [Redacted] was terrified of Russia, however, and would never travel there. He lived in Dubai at one time, and was acquainted with the [redacted] lived in Oman as well. He may have an Iranian and Israeli passport, in addition to his Vatican City passport"
Looks likely the top commenter here is correct about "Epstein's hacker":