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Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by zilian »

xwdv wrote: post #52
glofish wrote: post #36

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but maybe in ten years, you'll regret your choice or maybe you won't because you won't even know what you are missing out not judging you, I program and sit in an office, but I can understand the magic of being in the middle of the pulse of the world. It is a world that I only look at as a bystander. perhaps being a journalist is paid little because it is you are more alive, instead of programming the next punch-the-…

Even in a hundred years he wouldn’t regret the choice. Nothing you described sounds appealing. Journalists see most technology like a black box that does mysterious things and produces an output, just like a bystander. If you don’t want to be a bystander to those processes, you become a programmer.

Why are you so sure you can't be both ?

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by corodra »

52-6F-62 wrote: post #123
edoceo wrote: post #94

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Laws can have bugs too

Well put. Software is largely built of contracts; so are laws and any other interfacing agreements (as cold as that sounds).

Agreed. It's also human nature to game systems for their own advantage. The same evolutionary triggers that had us develop tools to reap rewards from the physical environment... well, we develop mental/abstract tools to reap rewards from the "intellectual" environment. There will never be a well intentioned law with enough "lock tight" wording that won't be gamed by someone out there at some point. The same, there will never be security that won't be eventually overcome at some point.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by tossAfterUsing »

zilian wrote: post #139
_8j50 wrote: post #125

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Really? I thought governments had a lot more, like trillions more. I thought the quality of life for humanity has never been better than now? Do you mean climate change? If so how does rich people's greed fit in the picture. I don't think they should hoard cash, there should be a limit on that but net worth usually includea stock value, wealth in form of stocks is far from hoarding. I think cash wealth limits and a l…

You must be rich to talk like that. Rich people generally emit a f#ckton of co2 and worse, they do not use their wealth to try to mitigate it, thereby condemning their own children.

oh, so it's all the global poor who are coordinating their efforts to reduce emissions of companies they don't own or operate?

thanks for clearing that up!

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by corodra »

poxrud wrote: post #122
lemmox wrote: post #78

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Many tax havens are actually quite stable and have very reliable banking systems. Canada encourages "snow washing" with Limited Partnerships. Canada's banks are quite good and the corporate legislation allows a degree of anonymity. This structure has no obligation to file taxes in Canada. The partners in the structure have to pay taxes however if the partner is not a Canadian entity that obligation is in some other j…

But Canada shares banking data with the IRS. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fatca-tax-us-canada-1.53539...

Uh-huh, and no one lies on their taxes either. While, I know it's funny to joke that Canadians say sorry and are super nice. I think that's a racist stereotype. Canadians are typically dicks. Especially the Quebecois. So to pretend that they magically share all information with foreign governments... sure. And Deustche Bank is innocent of banking fraud too.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by nyolfen »

_8j50 wrote: post #70

From what I read the hack was not sophisticated at all. If they had decent endpoint protection this would not have happened. Maybe they disabled defender after the initial access and privesc because defender blocks Get-Keystrokes and other things in empire,even with significant modification. Anyway, I don't care about the hacktivism and propaganda (don't really get it -- tbh,rich people bad/corrupt?) But would very m…

> privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by Concrescator »

_8j50 wrote: post #125
joshypants wrote: post #111

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The future of the species is literally imperiled right now because we've allowed rich people to hoard wealth, so that's a reason to care.

Really? I thought governments had a lot more, like trillions more. I thought the quality of life for humanity has never been better than now? Do you mean climate change? If so how does rich people's greed fit in the picture. I don't think they should hoard cash, there should be a limit on that but net worth usually includea stock value, wealth in form of stocks is far from hoarding. I think cash wealth limits and a l…

Goverments are more accountable than rich individuals.

Elon Musk is a great example of how consolidated wealth an individual has can have a large impact on outcomes.

It's not all bad news, but there are things going on with consolidated wealth that are very concerning right now.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by throwaway_tech »

thinkloop wrote: post #107
gxqoz wrote: post #50

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A recent piece in The Guardian argues that South Dakota and other US states are actually becoming the go-to place to store anonymously your illicit cash and make sure that your heirs can inherit it without taxes forever: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer... Partly because the US has compelled other countries to provide more transparency without joining that transparency organization itself.…

> forcing foreign financial institutions to tell the US government about any American-owned assets on their books This is another interesting part. How can the US "force" a sophisticated wealthy sovereign nation that culturally and morally values banking privacy (not only for the profits), like Switzerland? It cannot be understated how much power, control and ownership the US has of the world financial system. If Swi…

>Just a quick note that the US is equally powerful in the financial arena as they are militaristically, if not more so.

This was the trade off Churchill was forced to agree to, as London was being bombed by the Nazis, if he wanted the US to join the war. Before the War the UK ran the World's finance, after the War it was the US. In short the US financial power was birth directly from its military power.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by yabadabadoes »

seibelj wrote: post #95
jxramos wrote: post #89

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Un...

There’s legality and morality. Moving all my wealth to Cayman (or Texas) may be 100% legal but I thought we were debating ethics. All of these HNers decamping from NYC and SF to Florida and Texas are horrible awful people depriving the local governments of California and New York their deserved taxes!

You should probably look further into the brain drain which is a global theme with complex ethics. Independent people moving are not really bad or necessarily hurting a state they leave as they send remittances, move back to retire, etc. The overall affect of states incentivizing bulk drains can be brutal though as can the resulting investment decisions of a state that knows it's brightest will be drained. At any rate, in the big scheme of things don't worry about NY and SF, they (and even their own domestic victims) are not victims of drain on average.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by Sendotsh »

Thriptic wrote: post #116
Miner49er wrote: post #4

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Also contains some info on how they hacked Hacking Team and Gamma Group. Edit: Also a $100k bounty for future hacks on certain types of companies.

She also attacked the Barcelona police department, the Turkish government, and stole money from various Bitcoin wallets to donate to the Kurds iirc. Her write-ups are always really great reads and very enlightening.

Is there a collection of her write-ups somewhere?
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