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

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Post by trenning »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Where can we find her blog or wherever she posts? I only see a link to a translated pastbin. Or was it in there? I was just skimming it a bit so far but can't really read it until tonight.

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

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Post by xwdv »

zilian wrote: post #141
xwdv wrote: post #52

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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 ?

Because there are only 24 hours in a day and roughly a third of those are already spent sleeping and eating.

Edit: I see down vote bots are in full effect.

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

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Post by BoorishBears »

tossAfterUsing wrote: post #144
zilian wrote: post #139

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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!

The global poor don't get to choose. When the choice is firewood or not being able to cook and stay warm, you use firewood.

When the choice is find some way to stay entertained without taking quarterly vacations on CO2 generating flights to expensive getaways or keep polluting somehow no one bats an eyelid.

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

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Post by iudqnolq »

malvosenior wrote: post #126
iudqnolq wrote: post #124

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Ken White has been criticizing the Justice system for years. His point is that Epstein's death should be seen as a wake-up call to improve the treatment of people in our prisons, and not an anomaly. I found sources saying that guards were working 16-hour days and cutting corners regularly at the MCC ( https://apnews.com/39ca1eb755914af8b273966c268a0a9b ). I couldn't find a source for your claim that no one else had c…

> I couldn't find a source for your claim that no one else had committed suicide in the MCC in over ten years. Cite? Sure, one successful suicide in 21 years: https://nypost.com/2019/08/10/suicide-supposedly-nearly-impo... Anyone leaving that bit of information out of their narrative is being willfully deceptive or is not informed enough to have an opinion they should be making public.

Suicide is a common problem in federal prisons, accounting for around 30% of prisoner deaths. The NYPost article is deeply unsatisfying as a source to me because it conflate protections all prisoners have and protections prisoners on suicide watch have, and incorrectly states that cameras in federal prisons commonly cover sleeping areas. It also claims taking someone off suicide watch is unusual and rare, involving a lot of paperwork and evaluations. They are technically right that a lot of people have to sign off, but the process is often not taken very seriously.

Furthermore, in general the NY Post is seen as a far-right tabloid and I couldn't find any more reputable source making the same claim. And they don't provide much detail about their claim, hedging by saying that they tried looking up news articles and didn't find any (as opposed to having a more conclusive source) and report that there were a "handful" of unsuccessful suicides while omitting any further details. If they were a more reputable publication I'd give them some benefit of the doubt, but given their track record I'd want them to cite their sources more explicitly.

Still, your point did make me realize that every article I've ready about poor suicide watch procedures used national statistics instead of statistics specific to the MCC. That is a serious weakness of those sources.

Cite:

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/12/jeffrey-epstein-su...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-...

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

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Post by mlazos »

throwaway_tech wrote: post #148
thinkloop wrote: post #107

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> 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.

I don’t think it was a deliberate agreement per se, I feel like it was just the natural outcome after the US helped rebuild a lot of Europe. The previous world order had been ripped apart by the war, and the US was the world’s largest economy by the end.

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

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Post by 52-6F-62 »

corodra wrote: post #143
52-6F-62 wrote: post #123

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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 wi…

Sure. That's fair.

But I don't think that proves the above comment incorrect.

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

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Post by Thriptic »

Sendotsh wrote: post #150
Thriptic wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

These are the ones I am aware of:

https://pastebin.com/0SNSvyjJ

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cRYvK4jb

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oI_ZhFCS3AQ

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

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Post by Thriptic »

trenning wrote: post #151
Thriptic wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Where can we find her blog or wherever she posts? I only see a link to a translated pastbin. Or was it in there? I was just skimming it a bit so far but can't really read it until tonight.

Please see the other child post

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

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Post by mars4rp »

mlazos wrote: post #155
throwaway_tech wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

I don’t think it was a deliberate agreement per se, I feel like it was just the natural outcome after the US helped rebuild a lot of Europe. The previous world order had been ripped apart by the war, and the US was the world’s largest economy by the end.

It was deliberate, on one of the financial summits over the future of financial system after WWII a US changed all the word of GOLD to USD. there was a planet money episode about it.

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

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Post by jonny_eh »

CaymanCruiser wrote: post #92
bikeshaving wrote: post #80

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> an ultra-low corporate tax rate makes it possible to offer our customers services at a lower price than otherwise - I see this as a good thing. The claim that you’re transparently passing the savings of tax avoidance onto consumers rather than charging market-rate and pocketing the difference is both unlikely and unprovable. And even if you were charging less, this would essentially amount to an unfair, extra-legal…

> ...unfair, extra-legal competitive advantage. It is not unfair, and it is not extra-legal. Anyone can offshore their company and in some cases it can take less than an day (incorporating an LLP in the UK takes a couple of hours) with virtually zero barriers of entry, all fully compliant with the relevant legislation. If legal regulatory arbitrage (through tax havens) is unfair, then the corollary is that any kind o…

> It is not unfair, and it is not extra-legal

Then why are you using a pseudonym?

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