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New comment by flipped in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

flipped — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:10:08 +0000

German govt is also one of the most corrupt and vastly incompetent govt. It's run by bunch of boomers. Most of the prolific ransomware gangs have terrible opsec. De-anon'ing them is child's play. Most of the opsec-aware TAs never even get attributed, let alone get caught for any breaches.

New comment by flipped in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

flipped — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:40:21 +0000

People often forget that Threat Actors (TA) are the ones keeping the infosec alive. They are doing a good job of scaring people into implementing actual security protocols and thereby improving everyone's security posture. The whole infosec would collapse without TAs, let's not forget that. They create jobs.

The Internet Is for End Users

flipped — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:07:24 +0000

Article URL: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337431

Points: 3

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New comment by flipped in "First Website (1992)"

flipped — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:55:33 +0000

More than money, it's the curse of going mainstream.

New comment by flipped in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

flipped — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:50:33 +0000

Bullied? When they find out how much money there is to be made in surveillance business, they will do it voluntarily.

New comment by flipped in "A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:21:33 +0000

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New comment by flipped in "A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:54:34 +0000

All of his dox articles are based on sloppy practices from threat actors.

New comment by flipped in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:22:43 +0000

Anyone looking to use jails might find BastileBSD helpful. It's a nice and modern jail manager.

New comment by flipped in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:20:44 +0000

Never understood why satoshi was a prime windows user.

New comment by flipped in "Back to FreeBSD: Part 1"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:17:00 +0000

Is there any technical writeup which explains how the isolation exactly works, on containers and VMs? I have always heard the high level arguments of weak isolation, same kernel, etc but never the implementation details.

New comment by flipped in "A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:46:29 +0000

"Since the abstraction layers have quadrupled, let's not just care about the actual performance anymore!"

New comment by flipped in "A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:44:18 +0000

Krebs lack any sort of real credibility. He's pushing out slop with a govern-mentalist propaganda. Tech journalists are the worst form to gather any actual information.

New comment by flipped in "A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:41:17 +0000

State sponsored cyber attacks are news to you? It's been a thing since more than 2 decades now.

New comment by flipped in "A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:39:59 +0000

The mentioned botnet didn't intentionally take down I2P. It's run by bunch of kids who don't know what they're doing.

New comment by flipped in "A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P"

flipped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:35:39 +0000

It's 10, not 9. And there are severe problems with having a total of 10 DA be the essential source of truth for whole network. It would be trivial to DDoS the DAs and bring down the Tor network or at the very least, disrupt it: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10755.

It's the only complaint I have of the current state of Tor. Anyone should be able to run directory authority, regardless if you trust the operator or not (same as normal relays).

New comment by flipped in "Ghidra by NSA"

flipped — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:27:38 +0000

Almost every hobbyist reverse engineer uses cracked IDA which is easily available. I have never seen ghidra being recommended for serious work.

New comment by flipped in "Ghidra by NSA"

flipped — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:24:16 +0000

You're just giving the troll an audience by reacting to it.

New comment by flipped in "Ghidra by NSA"

flipped — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:22:44 +0000

Can you be more specific? Is it getting easier to reverse rust and go, since I have read about it being the hardest to reverse.

New comment by flipped in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

flipped — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:21:14 +0000

Jia Tan wouldn't be interested in secret spyware firms. They hide their code in plain sight.

New comment by flipped in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

flipped — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:19:37 +0000

Regulation never works in the interwebs*