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If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might be a CIA hacker

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Re: If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might be a CIA hacker

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That's actually pretty funny. Article mostly talks about the validation that security companies got from recent leaks, when before it could only be based on update and domain registration times. Kind of makes the US look silly with that oversight. Though even if they did fix themselves, it's not like you could change behavior on the old stuff.

They've found the same things about Russian and Chinese hackers as well. They work regular hours for their local time zone.

Re: If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might be a CIA hacker

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I've put some thought into similar deductions in the distant past. And measures to avoid them. Still waiting for the day a leak is attributed to the French because of the length of lunch breaks inferred from timestamps.

How long is a typical French programmers lunch break?

1.5-2hrs unless there is wine involved...

Re: If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might be a CIA hacker

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I disagree. The headline clearly states that if you only work on weekdays you "might" be a CIA hacker, implicitly admitting that there are also non CIA hackers working on weekdays. What I found funny and interesting about this is that if I were working on malware and making exciting progress I definitely would not be able to resist working on the weekend. The idea that there is a government employee who is paid to cr…

I don't know this for a fact, but I assume people working on top secret CIA malware probably can't work from home. They'd have to go into the office and access the code from a secure computer.

I'm sure you're right. Which is why you only see activity on weekdays.

Re: If you only work on your malware on weekdays, you might be a CIA hacker

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1.5-2hrs unless there is wine involved...

Can we avoid French bashing here? This is not reddit.

Lighten up? I'm not trying to abuse the French here, I've really observed this when working with several French teams!

I found it amusing, if you're offended then my apologies, it was written with a light heart and no intentional malice; and I gauged it by my not being offended by those who comment on observing the various stereotypes applied to my specific situation but alas my skin is thicker than others..

I don't think there is any value in using lunch length as any kind of meaningful metric, can we put the guns away?

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