I'm using a tool on Parallels on Mac that says "cannot run in virtual machine". Could I remove that check using Ghidra?
Yes, if you know what you’re looking for.
What am I looking for?
Ghidra by NSA
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#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
I happened to be at Amazon during Covid, and at a certain point during the hiring craze, I was doing like 3 interviews a week. I have interviewed probably close to 500 people so far in my career as software. Even pre llm, there was a clear indicator of someone who was skilled at coding versus someone who was not. The big thing that differentiated people was curiosity. When someone is curious, they would go look stuff…
Respectfully, I hope you don't judge the people you interview the way you judged me based on my question. You have no idea who I am, and surely not enough data to decide whether I know how to learn or not. In my opinion, it is extremely important for the interviewer to realise that they are in a dominant position. Here, I can tell you what I think about how you judged me. If I was an interviewee, I may not be in a po…
I am not juddging you on your persona or character, im judging you on the disconnect between what you wanna do and how you wanna go about doing it. If you wanna learn binary RE, LLMs can make you an expert easily.
In the same eay, when I am interviewing a person, the number one thing I look for is ones ability to not be a drag on the team - id rather one spend a week getting something to work on their own rather than asking for help every step of the way, because the latter builds skills that are gonna make them be someone who i can hand tasks and have them done right, rather than worrying about if they got the right guidance.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having been in Seattle, I’m not sure there was a time the NSA wasn’t involved with technology — eg, UW hosted meetups between researchers, criminals, and the government at least that long. Who built the Echelon follow-up, proto-dragnet system that provided the framework for the spying you bemoan? — the one extended and taken live in the early 2000s? Those same 90s hackers you glorify.
> provided the framework for the spying you bemoan The community I’m talking about definitely weren’t like secretly building tools for these agencies. I mean this sincerely I have no idea what point you’re making. The agencies existed and made tech so by logical necessity people worked there. I didn’t say all people in computing. There was a prevalent community of programmers and hackers who understood what these org…
> The community I’m talking about definitely weren’t like secretly building tools for these agencies. I mean this sincerely I have no idea what point you’re making.
You knew exactly what point I’m making, because it’s the first thing you responded to. And indeed, what you responsed to throughout your question. So no, you’re not being sincere.
Those groups always interacted and your bald assertion of their morality is directly contradicted by my experience of their interactions (eg, criminals and government corresponding at UW) and the change in Boomer and Gen X hackers following 9/11.
> There was a prevalent community of programmers and hackers who understood what these organizations represented and would never be on a forum blithely talking about some tool they made as if it was acceptable.
From their computers that originated in a US Navy lab?
Again, my experience from Seattle is that the idealism was always more show than reality — and government technologies were not only consumed, but built on contract when interests aligned (eg, stopping cyber warfare or dismantling terrorist networks).
What you’re describing — ineffective moral absolutism — wasn’t what I recall from the 90s hacker ethos that always existed in a liminal zone, but rather the 2010s era co-opting of existing groups (eg, Anyonymous) for moral crusading.
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#225I miss the analog of this community from the 90s. We had actual principles and ethos and wouldn’t have been caught dead upvoting and using software from the frickin NSA. Not that it’s any surprise here. Contemporary San Francisco driven software culture which is the majority represented on this forum have no qualms with FAANG ethics, open source is not really important either. Oh I’m sorry the NSA didn’t spy on the w…
do please share your "ethical" software stack that doesn't include contributions from "unethical" sources involved in spying, wars, human rights violations, etc what sort of device did you type this comment from?
I was waiting for this comment. So because the whole industry is corrupt, two wrongs make a right and we should champion the NSA and both use and discuss their software as if it’s totally normal and they’re just a fine organization. Have I got that right?
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
do please share your "ethical" software stack that doesn't include contributions from "unethical" sources involved in spying, wars, human rights violations, etc what sort of device did you type this comment from?
I was waiting for this comment. So because the whole industry is corrupt, two wrongs make a right and we should champion the NSA and both use and discuss their software as if it’s totally normal and they’re just a fine organization. Have I got that right?
so you browbeat people when they use “evil” software when you also do it? got it
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
> provided the framework for the spying you bemoan The community I’m talking about definitely weren’t like secretly building tools for these agencies. I mean this sincerely I have no idea what point you’re making. The agencies existed and made tech so by logical necessity people worked there. I didn’t say all people in computing. There was a prevalent community of programmers and hackers who understood what these org…
> The community I’m talking about definitely weren’t like secretly building tools for these agencies. I mean this sincerely I have no idea what point you’re making. You knew exactly what point I’m making, because it’s the first thing you responded to. And indeed, what you responsed to throughout your question. So no, you’re not being sincere. Those groups always interacted and your bald assertion of their morality is…
> From their computers that originated in a US Navy lab?
This is a logical non sequitur. It’s like being fed your lunch by your kidnapper and when you protest they say, you’re using the energy I provided to protest. Like that’s a contradiction somehow, it’s not.
Whatever the participation in the past may have been does nothing to excuse or make okay future behavior.
And to the extent I did understand your point, I was confused because it was such a strawman. As I explained I wasn’t talking about every person in computing (of course). Interacted doesn’t mean they were the same or had no moral distinction.
> ineffective moral absolutism
I don’t even know where to start with how flawed your thinking is. Effectiveness isn’t the driver for having morals. And obviously it was effective because I’m here protesting. Neither is it absolutism. Objecting to the gross abuse of our government doesn’t equate with absolutism.
Computers should serve their owners not corporate interests and dragnet surveillance. That was understood. 2010s Anonymous was a different thing in a different context that I wasn’t contemplating.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was waiting for this comment. So because the whole industry is corrupt, two wrongs make a right and we should champion the NSA and both use and discuss their software as if it’s totally normal and they’re just a fine organization. Have I got that right?
so you browbeat people when they use “evil” software when you also do it? got it
I don’t also pretend that it’s ok to use software from shit organizations that are a cancer on our civilization, no. Even if I did, two wrongs don’t make a right, and nothing I personally say or do or not, does anything to absolve the NSA.
However you slice it you have no argument here. Being held hostage by corporate interests in computing doesn’t make it okay to hold hands with one of the worst organizations on Earth.
By your twisted logic, because it’s practically impossible to avoid proprietary firmware owned by corporations, we should completely acquiesce to all forms of digital abuse by the government and actually should participate in their computing programs. Listen to yourself.
You’d be telling people who lived under an evil dictatorship to shut up because they walk the roads the govt provides.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
so you browbeat people when they use “evil” software when you also do it? got it
I don’t also pretend that it’s ok to use software from shit organizations that are a cancer on our civilization, no. Even if I did, two wrongs don’t make a right, and nothing I personally say or do or not, does anything to absolve the NSA. However you slice it you have no argument here. Being held hostage by corporate interests in computing doesn’t make it okay to hold hands with one of the worst organizations on Ear…
you're the one trying to shame people about using software you don't like by setting an impossible standard, how can you get upset when someone does it back to you and points out you don't fit it either? could you be any denser?