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I was gonna be worried for a second, then I remembered that kind of person almost never lives a terminally-online, hacking-obsessed life.

Phew.

gets back to trying to convince his bank to send his data over plain FTP



Morning standup at a state-sponsored hacking organization…

Bob: A big round of applause to Fred and Jane for setting up that XZ back door! Boy that got us so much intel!

A round of polite clapping.

Bob: What’s your status, Igor?

Igor: Bah, my target is running web server on MS-DOS. I finally managed to hand craft 16 bit 8086 machine code exploit last night (mind you during Hacker News Hug of Death) and gain remote access to A: drive but it turns out secrets are actually hosted on Amiga 2000 on private LAN which I can ping but I don’t know 68k.

Bob: Fortunately we’re a state sponsored hacking organization so we have considerable resources. R.J., do you think you can help Igor?

R.J.: Sure! Igor, do you know if it has an OCS or ECS chipset? …




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