Just for the record "Mitch Brenner" is the name of a character in the Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", and the photo in the profile is of the australain actor that played it, Rod Taylor.
How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
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Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#12Out of curiosity...is this a man or a woman? EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here? Is there anything wrong in asking a person's sex? What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria? Geez folks, not every question is sinister. If you don't want to answer it, just move on. No one is being attacked here.
> What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria?
A study based on one person doesn't sound very interesting.
Did you click the link at all? The author has a name and a picture.
Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree this reads like fiction, and it would be idiotic to admit it. If real, the people he stole from may be even less ethical than he is (and they must have noticed the ETH were gone, and at what time). This could paint him as a murder target, a position I wouldn't want to be in...
except it is possibly a grey area, the contracts are written such that extracting the money is only possible if you fulfill the contract, if you find a loophole and fullfill the contract and take the money did you really steal it?
It's unlikely that someone motivated enough to hire an assassin on darknet cares about the technical legality of the exploit.
It's very easy to piss people off within the confines of a system's rules. The general advice is not to do so.
Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#14Out of curiosity...is this a man or a woman? EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here? Is there anything wrong in asking a person's sex? What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria? Geez folks, not every question is sinister. If you don't want to answer it, just move on. No one is being attacked here.
> EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here?
It's not oversenstivity, there's literally no reason to care about the sex of the person who wrote this. It's completely offtopic and irrelevant.
What does "studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria" mean anyway? Reading between the lines it sounds like you think women behave one way and men the other way (which is fine if you think that btw), but wanting to "study" that using this article is just dumb.
Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree this reads like fiction, and it would be idiotic to admit it. If real, the people he stole from may be even less ethical than he is (and they must have noticed the ETH were gone, and at what time). This could paint him as a murder target, a position I wouldn't want to be in...
except it is possibly a grey area, the contracts are written such that extracting the money is only possible if you fulfill the contract, if you find a loophole and fullfill the contract and take the money did you really steal it?
With the usual caveats (IANAL, this may vary per country/jurisdiction) laws and contracts are usually about intent, not pure semantics. And you'd probably have a hard time to argue that this way of 'fulfilling' the contract was the intended way.
Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#16I think the key to understanding this article is this:
> But Mitch, isn’t this wrong? No.
Let's suppose the hacker really did feel no remorse for stealing 153k Ether then it seems they might not feel it necessary to keep their identity hidden. They might also feel proud enough that they feel it is worth the risk to publicly disclose their actions. Given that, it seems that perhaps some of what the author wrote might actually be true.
Despite that it seems that there is more than enough information here to identify them. There is only one country that celebrates Bastille day, they are apparently interested in men so either a gay/bi male or a straight female, they work for a security research company, they have excellent command of English, they are in their early 20s, they apparently have a fast and loose attitude. It seems those criteria would narrow down to only a handful of people.
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#17I'm curious why the attacker converted his ETH into BTC. Why not Monero first? Once the money is converted into Monero, it should be untraceable, right?
Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#18Out of curiosity...is this a man or a woman? EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here? Is there anything wrong in asking a person's sex? What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria? Geez folks, not every question is sinister. If you don't want to answer it, just move on. No one is being attacked here.
> What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria? A study based on one person doesn't sound very interesting. Did you click the link at all? The author has a name and a picture.
From jaclaz comment higher up:
> Just for the record "Mitch Brenner" is the name of a character in the Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", and the photo in the profile is of the australain actor that played it, Rod Taylor.
Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#19I'm curious why the attacker converted his ETH into BTC. Why not Monero first? Once the money is converted into Monero, it should be untraceable, right?
Liquidity. There's enough demand for ETH-BTC that you can convert $30m worth pretty fast; for ETH straight to Monero, you would be in for a much longer wait.
Re: How I snatched 153k Ether after a bad Tinder date
#20Out of curiosity...is this a man or a woman? EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here? Is there anything wrong in asking a person's sex? What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria? Geez folks, not every question is sinister. If you don't want to answer it, just move on. No one is being attacked here.
I happened to be doing some bug/feature chasing in Firefox a couple days ago (Firefox doesn't support Shadow DOM yet!! >.https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205323.
The reporter (who I am not calling out - it's the reply I want to focus on) happened to say "hey guys" as a salutatory address of the whole group. The very much unexpected comment reply that came next briefly digressed from the bug report to point out that small sentence and reference this URL: https://notapattern.net/2014/10/14/ways-men-in-tech-are-unin...
Tossing gender aside for a short moment, when I saw that link (and the multi-paragraph followup comment following the author's mild rebuff of the callout and URL as irrelevant), I'd say I was mildly irritated and maybe even fractionally offended (in the sense of "a tiny bit fed up", but not unreasonably/irrationally so) by it. This was mostly because calling this out seemed so out of place, and really, for what end?
Heheh. Then I read the article. It's well-written, grounded, and the links in the page point to similarly high-quality content (I may have link-chained for a couple hours...). I consider this page pretty much required reading; Mozilla found a good URL to reference for this.
I can understand your standpoint; I had it myself. Had. I'm grateful to say I'm comfortable how I was born. I also happen to like the opposite gender :P. So I'm pretty much a stereotype. But, as a stereotype, there was a ton I learned from that article, and I see everybody differently now.
To answer your question in good faith (no offense intended) - the site displays a small avatar photo of the author at the bottom.