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2016-10-05 at 12:07 AM UTC in S00p3r c00l h4xx0r d3v c1ub d00d!1I'll implement the fizzbuzz library.
In all seriousness I'm interested, but realistically won't be very useful. -
2016-10-04 at 11:51 PM UTC in man creates army of amazon bots to inflate ebook rankingsI think a lot of people here will find this inspiring. Basically this guy created an army of amazon accounts, dl'ed ebooks which inflated their ranking, and then made profit - millions of dollars. They call it a scam, although he didn't break the law, and it's questionable if it's illegal in a civil sense (claims amazon wants to sue him). I wonder if they've patched these holes or if someone could copy it exactly as is. Either way it makes you wonder what else this could be applied to. Most of the success hinged on amazon not verifying email accounts, I can't think of any service which doesn't do that anymore.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusi...tfishing-scam/ -
2016-10-02 at 6:08 PM UTC in IoT Botnet forces shutdown of Krebs on Security.
site was back up after the attack, he's probably just moving it
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2016-08-06 at 2:34 PM UTC in Hey Lan i have a proposition for you.I'd be interested in seeing what you create.
But just sayin, a .com with whoisguard is ~$14 a year and x10 hosting has a decent free tier. Or just use made up whois info, it's not a problem unless somebody sues you for the domain. -
2016-08-06 at 2:27 PM UTC in I want to make a cript that gathers proxies, selects one at random and...
Good point, i actually want a new proxy selected at random each time the script is run, maybe i could chain a couple at random as well but that will require some additional coding. And nah, i won't be changing the routing on the OS that's a bit too much as you say.
You basically have everything already there, just make a getter method to actually pick the random one and optimally makes sure that it's unique. I'd bet there's a python library that can do the heavy lifting for chaining them.
So how do you intend to make calls through the proxy? Did you already have something in mind or are you yet to do that? Curious how this would work in python. -
2016-08-06 at 1:48 PM UTC in Real talk: algorithms and data structures
Is there anything in particular you had difficulty with? You might get better answers on an education-focused site but I'm happy to answer any questions I can or talk though the problem sets.
Thanks I'll post quotestions when I have them. It was awhile ago when I last looked, mostly realized I'd need to backtrack a bunch to properly understand the complexity and growth rate to not just be taking random guesses.Yeah, I think math skills in technology are pretty bad on the whole, I still can't really do integral calculus on paper, but like anything you can practice and get better. For me I found I both enjoyed mathematics and could learn a lot faster if I did fairly few problems but learned in the context of like "I want to do this analysis, what do I need to know?", kind of going down the wikipedia rabbit hole, proving out intermediary steps instead of perpetual symbol manipulation.
Hah the school system has somehow created a generation of kids with the "I suck at math" mentality, it's created a defeatist attitude in general. That's why I want to do my part to improve.
I think it's a real weakness in modern western mathematics education in the way we treat mathematics like some kind of dependency tree, like first you learn some algebra and then that's set in stone and 5 years later you being able to work out some problem requires you recall some reflexivity property of some operation, if you don't remember this particular quirk of symbol shunting then "oh no, you suck at math, that was highschool stuff maaann". That wasn't the way the field developed, and while you do frequently need "lower" mathematics in dealing with more advanced material there's no reason you have to go out and "learn algebra" (whatever that's supposed to mean) before you can crack open a calculus text. You can teach middle schoolers graduate level math if you work up from the necessary ideas instead of trying to group all the math you need into some a set of monolithic subjects and putting them in some linear order and sure it's not as "robust" as the K-through-undergraduate approach I think it lends to a much more intuitive, useful understanding of mathematics as spirit of thought about formal systems rather than this kind of disjointed series of mechanical exercises you just need to shut up and memorize.Well to be fair webdev is, professionally, not a bad direction these days. It's how I pay the rent, a real "growth industry" at least for the time being. Tech is always thin ice in some sense but it's the place to be in terms of money these days, everyone is perpetually hiring and people flock in from other field with severely limited experience and manage to make 6 figs starting, depending on what corner of the world you inhabit. I wouldn't call it a bad career choice, I'm just kind of sad that between endless rivers of VC cash and tech megacorps we stream the majority of graduating CS talent into this wierd market that really has very little to do with computer science.
I'm not sure that's necessarily true, there's room in security for people who are neither total eliet or working for Uncle Sam. The McAfees of the world employ a lot of devs. It's probably true a not a lot of people start their careers there but it doesn't mean it's impossible down the line. There's this company called OPSWAT, they do sec stuff, they soaked up a good chunk of my graduating class and some of those people were straight up retards. It might take some work to get there but you shouldn't pigeonhole yourself unless you've found something you really want to dive into for its own sake.
That's solid life advice. And I remember you saying before you wished people cared more about theoreticals of compiler optimization and all that. The phrase "computer science" really has no one meaning, I'd say it's only used because it has a common understanding. Maybe in academia it really is a science. Personally I'm more drawn to the notion of building something than anything else. -
2016-08-06 at 4:43 AM UTC in Real talk: algorithms and data structuresFunny you mention MIT 6006 and Intro to Algorithms 3rd edition, those were the two resources I was looking at. I got as far as problem set 2 with the koch fractal before getting over my head. Honestly I suck at math, I can do alright at concrete things like easy statistics and discrete math, once it starts getting complex on paper or code it's really hard for me to visualize. I guess you've convinced me that it is worth my while. My education is in IT, which is basically a cheat code for a CS degree. I panicked my junior year of college and was convinced that webdev would be the best thing to get into, it's not what I ended up doing, but what I do requires more or less the same skill set (I use tcl a.k.a. everything but arrays is a string language).
For example I like the idea of network security, but it feels like the options for that field are either get a security clearence and become a goon or become a prodidgy and join McAfees elite team. -
2016-08-06 at 3:53 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
iktfb, although I'm only ever back in my "hometown" when something shitty happens or part of my family dies so it's been getting progressively shittier, darker and more depressing in my mind. I don't think I'll make it to the last funeral I'm alive for, god I hope when I die someone has the good sense not to drag my corpse back there. It's enough to make me want to shoot myself in the back seat of a car as one of those car-crusher things is about to smash me into a cute metal block or some shit.
Hate to be the barer of bad news, but you are immortal. You will not die. You are stuck here for an eternity. -
2016-08-06 at 3:50 AM UTC in lsd is the shit...Fuck it's made me the person I am today, but that's an unhappy shitty person. Really want to take it again, but afraid of them demons. I pretty much operate on hate and fear, the only emotions that matter.
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2016-08-06 at 3:47 AM UTC in Tonight should be pretty kick ass
Is tonight that meteor shower?
I think around this time of year there's just a lot of shooting stars no matter what. Yeah it's extra apparent during the meteor shower, but if you just look (and if your pupils are dialated as hell) you will definitely see shooting stars. -
2016-08-06 at 3:43 AM UTC in When I was a teenager, like 14 or 15, I had this idea.I was pushing my way through a bar and doing so stuck my hand in some girls drink. Was half expecting some shit to start. I wonder if they noticed, had it been me I'd have been pretty pissed out of principle.
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2016-08-06 at 3:38 AM UTC in New manchild job / rogue pizza guyThey do it as a way to exert control. If you really want to fuck with him say it's for religious reasons and you we're embarrassed to initially bring it up. Next day bring in your prayer rug. Day after that show them the clock you built from scratch.
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2016-08-06 at 3:12 AM UTC in Dear Sophie...Encryption passcode isn't a fifth amendment right, so why bother?
Inb4: "I'm a european and don't have any rights" -
2016-08-06 at 2:57 AM UTC in Real talk: algorithms and data structuresHow important is this shit, really? I'm conflicted because I could spend my time either making apps and websites to try and make money or I could try and learn this. Seems there are plenty of programming automation jobs which don't require this knowledge, but all I read on hacker jedis is how this stuff is the holy grail. I'm not strictly talking about getting a developer job, it pretty lucrative, but the tech/business people must also be making a killing. Will places really grill you on this stuff even if it's not a purely dev position? I want to level up eventually and honestly feel insecure about not knowing this stuff.
And what's the fastest easiest way to learn the most important stuff? I know about moocs and all that, lectures are a pretty shit format in person and even if free it's still not really worth the time. Is there a book or set of projects that will cover the basics?
GTKRWN -
2016-08-06 at 2:36 AM UTC in I want to make a cript that gathers proxies, selects one at random and...I think you'd want something like a new class NefariousThings, initialization should take a proxy object and prep the
bullconnection - would be a socket or something. Then a function which actually executes whatever it is you want to execute and forwards it through your proxy. Not sure how to make that really flexible, as in how to execute an sh script and have everything be routed through the proxy. You could of course change the routing on the os or use a virtual machine, but that seems like overkill. You already made get_proxy a class so regardless of how you handle the next step you might as well have it utilize the proxy object. -
2016-07-27 at 2:24 AM UTC in Favorite pentesting distro?
Also, benefit of Arch Linux with yaourt over ArchAssault?
I didn't know about ArchAssault until now that looks cool, although I don't think it should be or is a big deal to install a program. It's easier to install just what you need than to have a huge distro. If it deals with the complexity of installing that's a plus.And in your opinion why does arch > ubuntu?
I mean they do things differently and it goes both ways. I'd rather have newer software with new bug fixes and risk potential new bugs. The only downside is occasional package manager issues and the forum people are dicks if you don't know/care about the intricacies of how that works. You do definitely start to appreciate the more up to date software when you go to install something on a different distro and find it's not supported yet, even ones like cenots or ubuntu which stay fairly up to date. -
2016-07-27 at 12:47 AM UTC in Favorite pentesting distro?Arch and either gnome or kde and then just install what you need. Get yaourt working and you have nearly everything available. Kali overwhelmed me because there were a million different tools, but they all needed a significant amount of knowledge and configuration making it pointless, if I'm going to spend an hour learning some tool I can spend 10 minutes compiling.
First things first you'll have to install cmatrix and always have that running in the background for maximal l33t. -
2016-07-27 at 12:42 AM UTC in AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves:Can't wait for robosexuality and robosexual marriage to become the new sjw cause.
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2016-07-27 at 12:40 AM UTC in Beaten by copsGet a statement from the hospital as well. They must have billed you?
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2016-07-27 at 12:38 AM UTC in Inducing seasicknessGet very drunk.