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Recovering Windows Internals researcher turned hpc architect turned Web Apps security researcher. There is never enough time, thank you for yours.

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Now that I can say more, any further questions?

22.10.2025 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He did πŸ™ƒ

25.04.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People keep talking about how we used to live in a high-trust society and now we don’t. They blame it for our politics. Maybe they’re right. Some politician wants to fix it in a tangible way? Promise to make these phone scams go away.

28.03.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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20.02.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Deadlock Empire Slay dragons, learn concurrency! Play the cunning Scheduler, exploit flawed programs and defeat the armies of the Parallel Wizard.

Reminds me of this fun game

deadlockempire.github.io

And my writeup
www.acepace.net/2020-07-09-d...

17.02.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing if the software stack doesn't allow you to use it :)

07.02.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm preparing for a post-AGI world, where my only way to feed my kids will be blackjack+card-counting in Gaz-a-lago

H/t to @houmus.org

05.02.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Channeling the bay area

05.02.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did not have the destruction of the world's biggest intelligence community on my 2025 bingo card

05.02.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Under current US law, if you founded a company and it has become very successful and you own a lot of its stock, there’s really no reason for you to pay taxes. You don’t have to take a salary, and the company doesn’t have to pay dividends (it can just reinvest profits in its business), so you don’t pay taxes on any cash flows from the company.[3] You also don’t have to sell any stock, so you don’t pay any capital gains taxes.

How do you buy groceries? Well, classically, a bank will lend you a bunch of money secured by your stock, at a fairly low interest rate (because the loan is pretty safe), and you use that money to buy groceries and houses and yachts and things. The loan is not a taxable event. You never really have to pay it back: You just borrow more to fund your lifestyle (and to pay the interest on the loan), and if your company keeps succeeding, the loan compounds at a lower rate than your stock. You keep this up for the rest of your life, and then when you die your heirs can sell some of your stock to pay back the loan. And they don’t pay any tax on the stock sale, because they get a β€œbasis step-up.” This strategy is sometimes called β€œbuy, borrow, die.”[4]

Under current US law, if you founded a company and it has become very successful and you own a lot of its stock, there’s really no reason for you to pay taxes. You don’t have to take a salary, and the company doesn’t have to pay dividends (it can just reinvest profits in its business), so you don’t pay taxes on any cash flows from the company.[3] You also don’t have to sell any stock, so you don’t pay any capital gains taxes. How do you buy groceries? Well, classically, a bank will lend you a bunch of money secured by your stock, at a fairly low interest rate (because the loan is pretty safe), and you use that money to buy groceries and houses and yachts and things. The loan is not a taxable event. You never really have to pay it back: You just borrow more to fund your lifestyle (and to pay the interest on the loan), and if your company keeps succeeding, the loan compounds at a lower rate than your stock. You keep this up for the rest of your life, and then when you die your heirs can sell some of your stock to pay back the loan. And they don’t pay any tax on the stock sale, because they get a β€œbasis step-up.” This strategy is sometimes called β€œbuy, borrow, die.”[4]

Started reading @matt-levine.bsky.social's Money Stuff newsletter to learn about investing, but instead it has radicalized me by teaching me how rich people don't pay taxes.

28.01.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 12

Yes, as they said they would. No surprises

28.01.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I live in a bubble where this rarely happens. But I know I'm in a bubble

26.01.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So I'm not sure about perfect. For medium sized networks, attackers need to win but they're not with a five minute win. Defenders own the home ground.

For small networks, sure

26.01.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh. I agree. We really need to turn more problems into technical challenges which we can solve.

26.01.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So I believe we can automate a lot of the baseline stuff. Not 80/20, yes 60/40.

26.01.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my pet beliefs is this is no longer true.
For example, disabling smbv1 is painful but methodically simple. Long but not risky

26.01.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree with the entire thread.
But I'd argue that the weak spot is, at heart many attacks are repeatable and defenses need to be unique.

26.01.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We assume that networks repeat themselves. At some scale, maybe. In practice, millions of unique snowflakes

26.01.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But it's more complicated than that. We've created an ecosystem that is disaggregated so even when solutions are known, implementing them is a endeavor unique to every environment

26.01.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was the best of times, it was the warez of times.
It was the age of beige PCs, it was the age of IRC.
It was the epoch of ASCII, it was the epoch of 1337 speak.
It was the season of LAN, it was the season of dial-up.
It was the spring of goatse, it was the winter of dotcom.

25.01.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Had a solution, this was simply funny when I was discussing it with a director at MS

17.01.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the start menu showing 3 installations of Microsoft Teams, one tagged Personal, one classic and one "work or school"

A screenshot of the start menu showing 3 installations of Microsoft Teams, one tagged Personal, one classic and one "work or school"

It's been a few years, I still don't understand why I have 3 different teams applications on my machine.

Goes without saying none of them managed to connect to a Teams call and I ended up using the browser.

09.01.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

#justwarzonethings
One of my daily commutes goes through a GPS jammer. It's never not funny to see how badly navigation is confused

09.01.2025 05:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who uses the internet to shit post :)

07.01.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That requires the democrats to actively act like the situation is not normal

07.12.2024 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bkuesky made it, the onlyfans bots have arrived

07.12.2024 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

ΧžΧ™ הוא ΧžΧ™? ΧžΧ–Χ›Χ™Χ¨ Χ©ΧœΧ§Χ— שנים אחרי Χ”Χ˜Χ˜ Χ©Χ–Χ” Χ™Χ’ΧžΧ¨

06.12.2024 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

On the review board we have @sherrod.bsky.social @dwizzzle.bsky.social and @chompie.rip @hasherezade.bsky.social and many others I can't find here

30.11.2024 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
BlueHatIL - Call For Papers

BluehatIL 2025 CFP is open!
It's a great stage and a fun conference. Probably the best Israel has to offer

Go submit😺
www.microsoftrnd.co.il/bluehatil/co...
#cfp #cybersecurity #infosec

30.11.2024 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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