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“I will slaughter you”

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Post by bjarneh »

bombcar wrote: post #116
bjarneh wrote: post #74

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I agree; this seems like someone with so little technical ability, that I wouldn't be surprised if he did manage to talk someone into a buying a multi million dollar defense project he could not deliver... > I lost my family, my country my friends, my home and 6 years of work trying to build a better place for posterity. I get loosing your family / home / friends, but a country? Where did that go?

This sounds like the result of unscrupulous "boot camps" that are common in countries like India - people are told if they sign up and pay $life_savings they can become a programmer and be hired by "The US Government" or other companies for enormous amounts of money. A mundane class is offered with impractical advice and they're left with no money, little skills, and spamming the internet trying to get "their contrac…

> This sounds like the result of unscrupulous "boot camps" that are common in countries like India

Based on the rest of your description, those boot camps sound a lot like that Trump University.

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Post by yetihehe »

arp242 wrote: post #124
javajosh wrote: post #96

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A sad sentiment of giving up, but I think it is premature to abandon your approach. I think it may be worth trying for that small-ish fraction (call it 10%?) of people who can be talked back from their anger. Those are good conversations to have for both parties, and worth trying to have, even if it results in failure 90% of the time. That said, I think the real lesson for you is: don't make yourself more vulnerable…

> I think the real lesson for you is: don't make yourself more vulnerable (e.g. letting her touch you or your stuff) if you decide to try to start a conversation! I didn't "let" her, she just did it. I know you mean well and that you probably didn't intend it like this, but this comment comes off as victim blaming quite a bit. As for the rest: thus far I've never managed to talk random strangers down from these kind…

Yeah, had a neighbour lady like this recently. She was always closing her doors VERY loudly (lamps in my aartment were ringing) and when there was some argument with another neighbour, she eventually said that it was I who started banging doors. My best comparison for arguing with such people is like playing chess with pidgeon. It will throw off pieces, shit on board and be happy that it won. And you will be appaled that it didn't follow any rules, angry maybe, but is there any use to all that arguing? They will bring you down emotionally and then you only argue to have a feeling of winning. No meritoric discussion whatsoever. In such situations, just remember, that arguing with them will NOT have any utility or lasting value, it will just waste your time and mental health.

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Post by gruez »

eznzt wrote: post #99
sunir wrote: post #66

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That isn’t doxxing. You have no expectation of privacy if you send a threatening letter to another person.

And you base that on what? At least where I live I can't even record a phone conversation without informing the other party, much less divulge it...

Those are usually wiretap laws and only apply to voice. If you transcribe to text it's fair game.

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Post by sybercecurity »

ladyanita22 wrote: post #138
growt wrote: post #119

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My bet is on GPT-2 (GPT-3 would probably generate better text). This whole reply just isn't coherent (first it's a defence contract, then it's learning software for kids?). So either AI generated or someone with some mental illness.

Yeah, I have a seriously hard time believing someone responsible for a multibillion dollar defence project writes that shit.

Sadly, I see it as in the realm of possibility.

Gov contracting is an ecosystem on its own and those that figure out the bureaucratic hoops can survive a long time without needed much technical knowledge. Some of those individuals lose touch with what is going on outside of the defense industrial base.

Re: “I will slaughter you”

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Post by GistNoesis »

After reading it a few times, I think it's not about some script kiddie using curl to hack into his system.

Although I condemn Al Nocai's method, I feel for him and I am inclined to adopt the contrarian opinion that he probably got screwed because of the bad quality of curl.

Curl had some remote exploit last year, and curl is used everywhere as the author reminds (often as libcurl). https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/02/03/remote-exploiting-cur...

The deeper underlying systemic problem is that open-source is a way to disclaim all responsibilities. When some open-source project has some level of reach there needs to be quality requirements and regular security audits. (like they (last?) did in 2016, https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/23/curl-security-audit/)

Otherwise it's like the OpenSSL's heartbleed story where a few unpaid project maintainers hold the keys to the world.

In today's interdependent world, when trying to build something, we are more and more reliant on the quality of the library we use. As a product builder facing the client you get to bear the responsibility when your client has a problem because of a library you use. But when open-source software removed the possibility of competing solutions by providing free "as is" software, you can't realistically chose not to use it, and you are the one left holding the bag and paying the price for others mistakes.

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Post by yetihehe »

Huwyt_Nashi021 wrote: post #104
the_only_law wrote: post #29

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Don’t want to delve into any accusatory territory, but I’ve seen several new accounts with names following a similar pattern that post such material and dip.

Not by choice. I'm usually auto-flagged/shadow-banned/banned after one or two comments, so I make a new account to join the discussion when necessary. I would prefer to use the same account but it's out of my hands. The mod warned me that using a new name each time could be interpreted as deceptive so I've been using the same name (with an incremented suffix) for a little while now to not obscure my identity.

> I'm usually auto-flagged/shadow-banned/banned after one or two comments,

Maybe there is a reason? I had my comments downvoted, but thinking about this, it was deserved, those comments were really not constructive and severely lacking in empathy. No one normal likes reading such things and HN is a place where it matters. It's not a place to just vent.

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Post by sokoloff »

mahart wrote: post #111
brunes wrote: post #79

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I am pretty sure they are not even a script kiddie... they are just a fairly immature troll. Not sure what caused the original email, but the reply is just a copy/paste of various unrelated things and security incidents that the person Googled without even understanding enough about them to form a comprehensible narrative. Which tells me they are simply trying to get a rise out of someone. The way the grammar is cons…

The sentence: 'You built a formula 1 race car and tossed the keys to kids' Suggests he doesn't even comprehend that curl amounts to 'instructions to copy data'

And Formula 1 cars don’t have keys...
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