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Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

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Re: Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

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Post by toss1 »

recuter wrote: post #48
heavyset_go wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Satire is dead and the last couple decades of reality killed it.

Every once in a while I read about some wanna be criminal mastermind that got his idea for a crime from some TV show. Maybe everything is feeding on itself and that's what the singularity actually is, humanity disappearing up its own butthole. Logic as follows: A) Truth is stranger than fiction. - Golden age of streaming begets insatiable thirst for content. 3) An army of writers bangs out every ludicrous plot line i…

Yup, President Comanche timeline is in a film posing as a comedy, but which is actually a time-shifted documentary with the value of T unknown (and definitely not the stated value)...

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

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Post by detrites »

dahfizz wrote: post #53
Centigonal wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$65B seems oddly specific - could it be that they just set the liquidation limit for Alameda's account to 65,535 (max 16bit unsigned int), in millions of dollars?

It feels more likely that he just chose $65B rather than an exchange using unsigned 16 bit integers to do accounting.

This is FTX, remember.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

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Post by [deleted] »

digianarchist wrote: post #45
bearjaws wrote: post #9

Reminds me back at a certain large travel website I worked at, someone left the debug promo codes enabled in prod... Eventually someone found the "5000off" code, and posted it to Slickdeals. We had alarms for bookings that lost us money (especially with bundled flights), so it was found relatively quickly, but around 30 people had used it already... Except SBF was just massive fraud, not a whoopsie doopsie.

How did they find the code? Brute force?

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Re: Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

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Post by Oxidation »

recuter wrote: post #48
heavyset_go wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Satire is dead and the last couple decades of reality killed it.

Every once in a while I read about some wanna be criminal mastermind that got his idea for a crime from some TV show. Maybe everything is feeding on itself and that's what the singularity actually is, humanity disappearing up its own butthole. Logic as follows: A) Truth is stranger than fiction. - Golden age of streaming begets insatiable thirst for content. 3) An army of writers bangs out every ludicrous plot line i…

This is basically the plot for Accelerando but rebased onto Rule 34's having accidentally started to come true.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

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Post by itronitron »

heavyset_go wrote: post #4
makestuff wrote: post #3

Impressive that it was a one line code change to allow a 65b credit line. This is some office space level stuff.

Satire is dead and the last couple decades of reality killed it.

Maybe satire never existed, but we are only now realizing it.

Re: Sam Bankman-Fried's secret 'backdoor' discovered, FTX lawyer says

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Post by bitlax »

voganmother42 wrote: post #60
korroziya wrote: post #35

I don't see it mentioned in the article but is SBF still doing the "dumb blonde" act as though this were all an unintended accident or have his lawyers gotten him to tighten his lip?

“Dumb blonde” is not useful and such a silly stretch…I don’t think this was a good choice for a description of his actions and weakens the potential impact of your comment considerably.

babe in the woods then
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