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For some reason this sounds like the plot of a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. CEO of Crypto Company... 1) Takes time off to build orphanage in region noted for fake deaths. 2) Subsequently dies unexpectedly. 3) Is immediately cremated. 4) Wife waits a month before saying "oh by the way he is dead" 5) Wife claims all keys on encrypted laptop 6) World watches as wallets mysteriously empty 7) Experts crack laptop 8)…
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Applying a zero-day exploit without making it public doesn't burn anything. After all, no one knows how they did it.
But would they even risk raising suspicion?
A package of tools that comes on a hardened usb key, just plug it in in the field and it runs through the 0days that it knows about.
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But would they even risk raising suspicion?
I'm confused why anyone in this thread chain would think a firm like Ernst and Young would have access to zero-days?
Coming up with 0-days is moderately hard with your own cracking team. Buying them is an easy thing to do.
Ultimately, that's what 0-days are for in the wider market. You find one and sell it.
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More plot twist - (taken from cbc article) "Government records also reveal that Robertson (wife of Gerald Cotten) has used three family names. Deeds for properties she bought in 2016 show she was once known as Jennifer Forgeron. On Dec. 1, 2016, Nova Scotia's Royal Gazette announced she was changing her name from Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Griffith to her current name, Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Robertson." https://w…
Forgeron? Who uses that as a fake name?
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Considering 2008, what's the point of those lessons? Might as well save a few tax dollars on "regulators".
The banking crisis happened in large part due to lack of regulation, not because of them.
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In the sequel his ghost solves blocks when you play a latin rhythm and two young/broke computer enthusiasts who moved to Puerto Rico to make it big are the only ones who can see him because they smoked weed that grew in soil mixed with his ashes.
This is one of the best comments I've ever seen on HN, oh my god this movie would be awesome!
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Plot twist: 10) The CEO was really an actor... hired by the "wife", who masterminded the whole thing Alternative plot twist: 10b) Both the CEO and wife are hired actors. The head of the orphanage was the mastermind
> The head of the orphanage was the mastermind The orphans are the mastermind. The headmaster was nothing more than two kids in a suit. They're all on a beach sipping capri sun playing nintendo switch.
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That "award" ceremony video is both surreal and ridiculously cringe-inducing at the same time. It wouldn't surprise me if he actually felt like he had "achieved" something when he gave himself that award, either. It was like you were watching his fantasy of what people would say about him if he was a productive member of society instead of a criminal and fraud.
FWIW, this is only marginally worse than your standard 'industry award' in that he had the nerve to give it to himself. Pretty much every industry has a boatload of meaningless awards. It is done largely for marketing and for 'social engineering'[1]. It is cheap (both in cost and tact) but effective. [1] Curries favor with the awardees, creates an 'in group' etc...
This one is a lone scam artist in a room full of what I can only assume to be paid actors (like the ones at superbowl half time shows).
Another thing that struck me was the awkward "big guy" speech. It was like he instructed her to really drive that point home. Makes you wonder what kind of inadequacies he's trying to overcompensate for.
If you look through their other videos he even stumbles through some kind of meandering self-congratulatory acceptance speech. It's even more painful to watch than the dead-eyed woman announcing his "achievement" and telling everyone what a "big boy" he is.
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DiCaprio? This whole affair has been at best a Weekend at Bernie's-level plot. The accounts were emptied 8 months before the death, and yet QCX pretended they were solvent the whole time so they could keep the party going.
In the sequel his ghost solves blocks when you play a latin rhythm and two young/broke computer enthusiasts who moved to Puerto Rico to make it big are the only ones who can see him because they smoked weed that grew in soil mixed with his ashes.
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I lost some 2010 BTC (trading at ~$30) in the MtGox failure, and then missed the window to make a claim. Harsh.
Did you miss the second claim window as well? We got the trustee to change the bankruptcy format, and it reopened the claim window until I think November. Did you not get any emails about the claims?