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No, you give the other player the entire wallet, you don't actually do a transaction
Then the investigators go to that person, and they point them towards you.
Have the person killed shortly after.
Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
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Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
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I've noticed it before but never thought too deeply about it. Where did this 'stereotypical hacker' image stem from anyway? Computer 'nerds' are often cast with pressed button-up shirts, pocket protectors, and thick glasses. But if they are a 'bad nerd', they suddenly don a mysterious hoodie that covers their face as they work in a cave-like room like some kind of new-age techno-troglodyte?
I think it comes from recent popular media, like the Watch_Dogs games and the TV show Mr. Robot . Hoodies are a way to prevent people from seeing or identifying you, so media people use it as a visual shorthand for "this person wishes to conceal their identity". Back in the 90s, hackers were all cybergoth ravers; this image is more in line with the $CURRENT_YEAR zeitgeist in which pervasive surveillance is a top issu…
No bro, it comes from the Unabomber and the iconic police sketch.
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
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Most corporate security is about compliance, audits, regulation and balancing the need for security with the needs of the (often stupid) users. Very little of it is actually tech. There is pentesting and malware analysis for the actual "tech" stuff but it is quite a small market to be honest.
>but it is quite a small market to be honest. I get that impression too. I do some cybersecurity type stuff as a hobby and was hoping to make a business out of it somehow but it doesn't seem to be a easy market to crack.
What’s military cyber security like and how does it compare with consumer or enterprise security? I‘d wager the appeal of cyber security is mostly in the domain of military. Think stuxnet or NSA
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#54The main problem with cyber crime for profit is you have to get the money at some point. So no matter what at some point you have to either trust someone (bad idea) or have the cahones to walk into a bank and withdraw the cash. Even then you to explain how you got the money if it's over like $10,000 or people start asking questions. Yeah dumb people will focus on hacking but once you think it through you see there is…
Bitcoin?
Can you not use iTunes?
Become an artist, sell albums, people buy and gift your albums using iTunes gift cards?
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've noticed it before but never thought too deeply about it. Where did this 'stereotypical hacker' image stem from anyway? Computer 'nerds' are often cast with pressed button-up shirts, pocket protectors, and thick glasses. But if they are a 'bad nerd', they suddenly don a mysterious hoodie that covers their face as they work in a cave-like room like some kind of new-age techno-troglodyte?
The hoodie is already used to typecast criminals, drug dealers in rough neighborhoods, etc. It's also a sign of relative youth (<40 years old). Dark places are an uninventive way to say they're doing something "bad". What's funny is that while they are depicted as being smart/dangerous, they're also depicted as being white and male, which is also a usual sterotype and conveniently forgets the proportion of extremely…
And also people over 40 that wear hoodies.
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What do you mean by defense? Covering your tracks? In this case I'd argue it's the opposite - in pentesting the worst that can happen if you get spotted is a failed test, while in real crime this could be the difference between freedom and jail.
You are generally hire to fix problems which means you need to close the holes you find.
To be fair, many cybercriminals do this too, to lock out their competition.
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Launder it through an MMO like EVE online
You're going to try to launder millions (maybe tens or hundreds of millions) of dollars through an MMO and think no one will notice? Good luck.
This isn't something I made up. Criminals have been using MMO's in-game currency to launder money for over a decade. The trick is to launder slowly over a long period of time. Very hard to catch.
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#58Uh, funnily enough, the "boring" stuff they've mentioned in the article doesn't seem THAT bad to me. But maybe that's because I haven't been forced to do that sort of administrative work often enough for the novelty to wear off.
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Bitcoin?
Can be traced. Monero is another option but I've heard it can be traced too. I certainly wouldn't bet my life on it. But in either case you still have to convert it into cash at some point.
Not just that it can be traced, there's a long-lived distributed ledger of the transaction. In a way, it's one of the worst choices.
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
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I've noticed it before but never thought too deeply about it. Where did this 'stereotypical hacker' image stem from anyway? Computer 'nerds' are often cast with pressed button-up shirts, pocket protectors, and thick glasses. But if they are a 'bad nerd', they suddenly don a mysterious hoodie that covers their face as they work in a cave-like room like some kind of new-age techno-troglodyte?
How else would you tell the difference, some kind of evil gotee?
Flexo vs. Bender