<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: omgCPhuture</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=omgCPhuture</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 08:48:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=omgCPhuture" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by omgCPhuture in "Sodium Ion Battery Tech Hits the Auto Industry – Are We Ready? [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uh, The Chinese have been using these for years in their e-vehicles, YEARS. Way to catchup to the those pesky chinese people. Fact is China is ahead of the curve on these things and in e-vehicles.<p>I guess being years ahead of the  US in modern tech, including drones with a government made from mostly ENGINEEERS and SCIENTISTS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:41:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207862</link><dc:creator>omgCPhuture</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by omgCPhuture in "White House official: 8 US telecom providers hacked by Chinese"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good thing the  FBI is knwon to not lie, be truthful, !fullofshit (lol i cannot help myself).<p>This just in, massive behemouth outdated corporate telecom infrastructure  hacked, ClueNN Trust Worthy reporting [PRESENTED BY PFIZER.CLARO.CARTEL.SCHMIT]. writes:<p>* This hack is unrelated to the NSA PHYBR-OPTIK.SPLITTER ATT SF hack, exploited by the NSA via NSL-2-NOC which piggy backs on the dotCORP infrastructure via SOCIOPATHIC.NYYD by Threat Actor FISA.BS, according to sources.<p>According to sources CHINESE HAXX0RS have Hacked a DirecTV decoder box from ST, predating 2008 with Leenux Kernel v. -1 (Yes, v. minus-one), and not the kernel 2,3 and 4 shit all over the network. These kernel major versions 2,3 & 4 are totally secure and up2date, says FBI spokes person stating: "Trust Us or FISA_TEH_FUCK_AROUND->OUT".<p><i>ClueNN has submitted. a FOIA request to the US Government to find out  what we will find out if we FISA around.<p>According to CVE-000001 and cve-0000000 to cve-202412001; The outdated decoder unit contains a vulnerality after the Boot Loader, where the STB boxes from ST Era and Broadcom SoC are suseptible to arbitrary code execution in  $TAKEYOURPICK vulnerable hardware bitsy, which they  will vaguely boiler-plate in 90 days, maybe, but if so without any and all useful insight sources state: "The vulnerablity being exploited in the wild leads to arbirary code execution and is actively being exploitedom in the wild by Panda Emails" said to contain the WOKE:MIND:VIRII, politely asking the recipient to dd if=vmlinuz of</i>=/dev/sdd bs=1k then plug the hacking device known as a USB memory stick into the outdated $equiptment or kindly order an N-DAY USB cable from AliBaba, a USB hub and a regurlar USB cable and emailing them back after installing the Advanced Nation State USB technology, providing a  helpful click2buy link w/ free shipping."<p>*The FBI WARNS customers to not click on the cute Panda Emails, citing risk of WOKE.MIND:VIRII infection risks and remain calm on X while Socially-Woke.Media induces a stroke in the Chinese Pandas and their victims as there is no known fix for infected systems, but to to stay vigilant, not click any links and RTFM keyboard short cuts to open the BitMapped Icons from their Desktop.<p>The hackers, EN.PUDN.COM.GOLDEN-TSUNAMI.CN, thus presents as a clear and present dangerous to the US infrastructure as the operators divide by 0x0 in 0xC1OOee00, and certainly not the outdated ecosystem all over $ALL major telecomes due to op opaque security  practices nobody legally can check them on.<p>THe US FBI at the J Edna Hoover building declined to comment at this time citing national security, adding Trust Us, we know what we are doing - a policy famous for always working out well throughout history, Hunter Bidens Laptop tells ClueNN.<p>When asked for evidence that it was Chinese PRC MSS PoC||GTFO hackers and not simply the CIA carding US Citizens in wake of the numerous Heroin, Cocaine, etc. Black Ops Financing scandals, ir a desire to carry plastic  and not metric tonnes and all the work fidning. a poor, illiterate colored dude from the ghetto  to blame as well as the domestic source supply of plastic from  Visa, Amex and Mastercard. as well as rumours Rick Ross is escaped from prison using reading skills rendering the 3 strikes conviction as useless lead-ballons, yet metric tonnes more illegal, illegit and unconstitutional.<p>The CIA, a state sponsored terror organization (by definition), well known for tactics  such as REPLACING STRINGS in Malware and Back door code to blame  $everyone else, ClueNN was told:<p>"$HUNTER_BIDEN_LAPTOP.CHYNEEEESE.MISINFORMATION dis dat and propaganda jazz."<p>Politely also offering ClueNN a on-the-house NSL gift,. ClueNN Declined the gesture citing reporter code of ethics, which prevents accepting letters, national, secure  legal or illegal letters of any kind. ClueNN reports adhere to the  stricttest propaganda ethics code, specifically, Freedom to ridicule known liars with a history or less than $ANY_GOD_DAMN_CLUE as it is kind of lulz that the infrastructure of all major carriers seem fully oeprational, without any service distrupttion notice  to customers, showing how hackety-hack--hacked the serious vulnerablity not at all overplayed with hyperbole and unfounded wild accusations.<p>ClueNN tried to reach the NSA in Maryland, only to have US Post return our written request for comments with the code 404. Sources at Microsoft are researching what the code means, but crypto experts said "101 101 101 101" when asked for comments. The US Post Office insist the mysterious code is not a virus, but could not provide further details on what this "number" thing and HTTP RFC Standard is, and where these pens they speak of can be  bought.<p>ATT, declined to comment citing the fact that the FBI went up against MOD 3 times during the 90s for hacking telco infrastructure, abusing their wirless network to stay a step ahead of the FBI due to comcerms that land lines were insecure resulting in reliance on Historically Clearly Super Secure Mobile Phones secured by DES cryptography and industry standard Signal System 7.<p>ClueNN has received  reports  MOD was a bunch  of long haired hippies, so Offensive nationstate sponsored chiense hackers should be routine for the FBI to fail at.<p>FBI WARNS TELCO CUSTOMERS OF UPCOMING SS7.CHYNEEESE-SIGNAL DANGERS AS PEPPER.DATSUN-SALOON APT hackers have been accelerating their NOT-DAY attacks on  Shit System 7 ver Known.vuln.since.2000 by academics wo have studied the SS7 Manual and ctching the very subtlw lack of $ANY ACL in the secure technology designed in the 1980s.<p>ClueNN is assured the FBI is actively working with telecoms to unplug their vvulnreable shit and format C: like it is 1997, but declined tocomments on how  $old+$outdated infrastructure was not patched the last 5-10-ish years, but insider sources in the hackers news community have told ClueNN the entire globe used a known vulnerable telephone system only known vulnerable 20 years, according to RTFM.MAN, an ancident fountain of hacker knowledge only the most 31337 hackers have access to.<p>ClueNN will satirically do more drugs as this clearly very serious, situation continues...if only kevin mitnick was here now, but sources say mr Mitnick is taking a seminar called Coding PHP w/ Pico and not getting Pwned by zf0, a group said to be linked to the notorious Ac1dB1tch3z, who as the name implies are on acid, hackers and notorious and therefor to ve considered extremely dangerous.<p>Anonymous AI.Handles ClueNN has totally spoken to tell us we should expect all the ethernet cables to be unplugged $EONS_AGO due to the severity of the bugs not even close to GSM/2G state - a reference to G-forces pulled only by the most elite fighter pilots as MACH 3, duh.<p>This has been clearly trustworthy reporting w/ substance, at least as much as the FBI has.<p>- CLUENN
Clearly not, jaded, fed up and so past  taking the US Fucking Banana Idiots propaganda.<p>On a side note, the group FBI claims is behind the alleged attacks were inside Gemalto a short while ago acccording to Gelato. Errr, Acccording to Gemalto 2 unknown English speaking government intelligence services were inside their networks, not the  Chinese PRC or MSS. ClueNN apologizes for any confusion.  Gemalto is the global SIM/USIM  supplier of "Trust".<p>I need to train an AI model to just censor propaganda bs from the FBI and other us prpaganda ministries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:22:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326739</link><dc:creator>omgCPhuture</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by omgCPhuture in "FBI tells telecom firms to boost security following Chinese hacking campaign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Encrypted".  Emphasis on *transport  cryptography! Signal etc mesages can be found in phone memory even after reboot. Someone should really hold  a crash course on how to crypto on your devices from FS to messdate data over IP works: 
*It's not your crypto, but a bunch of others, (strangers, dangers) people's crypto who's __word__ you accept for Gospel (trust us, we know best!:)  Not to mention if your packets have reached correct end point and not one the CA just says it the expected one__!*<p>* You blindly trust a daisy chain of stranger's word that their code and their CA and they themselves are uncrackable & secure. Would you trust strangers insisting on being all in your secure bits?<p>* Most  industry CA based. hardware  does not disclose vulnerablities or noice that patches are incoming t the end user, they secretley fix after their lients, your servivce provder typically, has beengiven advisories. Those rarely are givenn to the en dus,t he customer, because of NDA or even lazyness, security by obscurity incomeptence etc.<p>Smart device encryption is an illusion  where your  trust strangers with legal/financial or Intel motives to betray it, but call strangers fancy names like CA, ROot of Trust,  etc.<p>The entire ecosystem of trust based device security crypto is to ensure their access to your daa, securely. Not to secure your data from them or the OEM, and TLS padlocks simply means the CA  told your app whtever certificate pres4ented is the right one, green lighting you and that endpoint to negotiatie encryption, so for all you know you aor your app could be negotating encryption with the US FBI or $APT.<p>* CAs do get compromised by attacker, nation states & researchers,, encryption standards do get backdoored, with weak implementations or even kleptographic ones.<p>q: Why is the US FBI  causing panic  about suppposed chinese hacking isntead of contacting us service provides who can enable 4g / LTE  IPSEC transport, supported by all certified handsets and USIM,  yiuelding telecom network infratrcture  acccess a moot point since ipsec tunnel is from you to your service provider and their end point.<p>A: You are victims of on-going psyop conditioninig you to trust blindly!<p>Do not fall for the temptation: Every part of the daisy chain of trust providers have insentives to screw you over at their whim...and then there is all the code they + you rely on to bootstrap that daisy chain of naive trust..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323433</link><dc:creator>omgCPhuture</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by omgCPhuture in "Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gosh I miss the days Google were using pagerank and not whatever the heck kind of crap their service has turned into.</p>
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<p>That is quite interesting. Having experimented quite a bit with various psychedelics myself, I find DMT to give the most colorful visuals by far. Curious how DMT is for colorblind people vs LSD. Anyone know?</p>
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<p>Not the first time, and also not shocking considering they seriously argument kevin mitnick must be denied touch tone phone use during serving his sentence becuase of the risk of him whistling (i think they meant blueboxing) ICBMs up into the air.<p>Chuckles me up still, the signalling landline network was long since gone, whistling alone never cut cut and the ICMBs are not ont he telephone network (the turth about those is much more horryfyng than the fact that the FBI nor Mitnick saw the egg on their face arguing about analogue hacks long since dead on the digital networks AND clearly  both thought the ICBM  silos could just be dialed up on some public number.<p>FBI have previously used agent provocoteurs to induce violent acts in animal rights groups. Fucking Batshit Insane is what they are pulling shit like this over and over.<p>..and you crazy americans arm these amoebas?!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:50:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899497</link><dc:creator>omgCPhuture</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by omgCPhuture in "Is anyone interested in equity only part time jobs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What the other guy said, but also depends on the product, part in it, travel, and of course, if there are cool toys - maybe even ones that would be beneficial for a potential applicant who may or may not have their own projects they are working on that may be out of reach to part-timers due w/e reasons. I had a  thought like this a while back, but locally most folks with the technical ability to contribute are securely employed.</p>
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<p>Is SETI those guys listening with radio telesopes for life signs and did not get the memo that pr definition every solar system by definition has a astronomically large and ultra power WIDE-BASE RADIO NOISE Generetor in them, you know, like the. Sun? Any radio signals moving in and out of solar systems are essentially scrambled leaving ours and entering say wherever E.T. go home? Strikes me as a little problematic to overpower or filter the by far largest and most powerful radionoise generators: For example our sun us so much bigger and powerful than anything we could begin to compete with, thus making listening with radio   for radio that bears hallmarks life of being guaranteeed to fail using that method?<p>Im asking for a friend, me, myself & I.</p>
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<p>Tobacco smoke killed ALL my grandparents, well, well one of them would have died from alcohol use, as he was a fisherman and they drink a  lot. My uncle died from liver and bowel cancer, the liver cancer stems from alcohol consumption, or rather it's metabolite, acetaldehyde, which is _scary as hell_: It makes cancerous  scar tissue of whatever it touches, thats why alcoholics die from liver failure: it becomes all scar tissue and cannot regenerate, which is part of its function (the average adult has a liver 3 years of average age). It is also what gives the alcohol buzz. He was not a heavy drinker, but only drank wine and aqua vit/liquor, 1-2 times a year he would get shitfaced -- he was a funny drunk. I miss him. I miss all my grandparnts, they were the best and did not deserve Emphysema , lung cancer and so forth. Grandma taught me soldering, welding, basic ircuitry, how to ride a bike, composting, growing veggies, all about berries in the wild and helped me save up for my Nintendo NES,encuraged mt curiosity...I would beat the crap out a tobacco exec  if I crossed paths with one, a part of me wants to torture them.<p>I smoked for 15 years, turns out quitting was easy, once you undestood the way the addiction works, but nobody considers that they developed oral fixation from sucking on a potennt noootropic habit forming substance all day,<p>But then we have Silvy Listhaug (politician): Marijuana will continue to be banned because she is a mom, she told the reporter photographing her smoking  cigarettes. I hope she gets lung cancer.<p>Personally, as a monkey with a lump of fat in my head called a brain, I think drinking fat solving solvents are a bad idea for that reason alone.fMRI scans shows white brain tissue in drinkers literally dissolves over time.<p>The increase in marijuana use is mostly due to 3 factors:<p>* Nobody is hiding anymore.<p>* We become more people every day.<p>* More & more people realise alcohol sucks.<p>The UK and CAnada's offcial stance on alcohol is that there is no such thing as a safe amount of alcohol consumption.<p>The war on drugs is going well in Norway: Cocaine & MDMA purity averages above 80%, Racemic amphetamine is cheaper than hash now, and the hash is good as anything you can find  in dutch coffeeshops. ..and it is all getting cheaper at the same time. The war is being lost so bad the police have stopped issuing Narcotics stats 2 times a year as mandated and dropped it to once a year. Last year crystal meth averaged over 99% purity, 99.2%-99.6% according to Kripos Crimelab!! 5000 mafia families in Europe alone funds their organized crime with proceeds from the artificially high price of cannabis  caused by the ban, legalizing and taxing it resoanbly would snuff out those and would be a massive blow to organized crime. GHB is fueling a rape epidemic here. Oh and you can legally buy poppy seed and grow them here...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:22:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215125</link><dc:creator>omgCPhuture</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by omgCPhuture in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The AP article has one critical  thing wrong:<p>"The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget, would recognize the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. However, it would not legalize marijuana outright for recreational use."<p>It is in fact because they were ordered to do so by the US FDA, who  by law decides what schedule drugs should be in. It started with MDMA,  then LSD, Psilocybin and marijuana. In that order. They signaled the DEA to reschedule all those things because, in fact, they are legitimate medicine and I cannot help to wonder if that started with MAPS (maps.org) applying to do trials with MDMA for PTSD and being  *beyond* due dilligent.<p>The FDA will collect data from any relevant agency whenever something (at least drugs( are applied for $whatever use. I have heard through the grapewine that the FDA were downright furious to learn the DEA had lied about MDMA for years while veterans are killing themselves daily. Much of the DEA data supposedly showed a ton of deaths attributed to MDMA just because a pill with a logo was being sold as if it was MDMA, while in fact it was sooooo many other dangerous things. The US DEA lies about just about everything. These substances are not depency-forming like opioids. If the DEA of any US alphabet soup move their lips they are lying.<p>The empathogen and psychdelics are not even habitforming: Do you know what happens if you do LSD daily for a week? I do, You can lick an entire sheet on the 7th day and hardly feel a thing, which I know because I have. Israel has been leading the way in marijuana research for decades. 90 year old holocaust surviors inhale marijuana vapor,for PTSD. I find extreme relief from PTSD myself using marijuana vapor: The nightmares stop, and suddenly I sleep 8 hrs a night, a few days of that I almost forget I have PTSD. Then I moved back the "richest nation of earth" (and it can go fuck itself) and essentially have to be a criminal to get regular sleep to function keep a job and not live in a perpetual nightmare. WE have Bedrocan / Bedrolight, but nobody can  get a script for it because of all the nonsense authorities and socialized medicine/psychiatry thinks about it. Terminally ill cancer patients have begged to try it and at least on one occasion die 6 days after the news that he got denied died, in hospital from accute opioid poisoning. THey kill cancer patients with opiods  all the time.<p>And WTF are DEA  doing with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark?! They set up shop there and suddenly swedish police  (SSI) has endless kilos of cocaine to plant and don't want the labs analyzing it following swedish law (the law say to destroy within 3 months of seizure and lab analysis and it has been all over national tv in the Scandinavian nations they Police active tried to stop them destroy man y many kilos of it, 9kg of which they were caught planting.). Oh, and SSI police have a tendency to become cocaine addicts. -All that cocaine with no oversightmakes it an occupational hazard, I guess.<p>IMHO, if you go to war for me, you deserve the best treatment available for your injuries. MDMA assisted therapy trials  have helped veterans I know personally. I stoppped drinking liquor & wine the first time I tried marijuana, 20 years ago. The UN removed cannabis from the  narcotics list in 2020, for decades it was embarassing: None of its cannabinoid components ever went on it as no narcotic effect were demonstrated they were listed as psychotropic substances, along with caffeine, psychdelics, nicotine, alcoholm etc. The original Opioum conventions had a clause specifically permitting businesses to have upto 500g for resale in small quanties to adults. That is how Dutch Coffee Shios exist. The UN listedcannabis in the 1930's under the __assumption__ of opium like effects, nobody  what was in marijuana until late in the 60s, many years after the 1961 Narcotics treaty.<p>I am still waiting for the war on tylenol, which has killed over 100k in US a year for decades. Remember when opioids killed 100k a year in the US? The entire world does, yet most people dunno about Iran's struggle: almost half the afghan heroin ends up i Iran, has for decades. Afghanistan makes about 80% of illicit heroin.</p>
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<p>This is very exciting, I was diagnosed as an adult. Excellent post and I really think they are on to something.</p>
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<p>Windows 95 was only given a TCP/IP stack and "browser" because of Marc going public with it as company, although they copied theTCP/IP stackf rom FreeBSD and somehow managed to completely fsck it into a buggy mess. Internet Exporer source code is a trip worth reading for the developer folks' comments alone, man there is a lot of swearing in there.<p>Bill G insisted the internet and this web thing coming about was simply a fad till that happened.. Even children understood better as soon as they were let on to it. I should know, I was one, and it was so blatantly obvious, even to me and many of my childhood friends.<p>Gotta hand it to Mr. Marc Andreessen</p>
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<p>They do,or did nobody take a look at the MX pointer's IP after they  start using outlook mail protection? NSA has openly admitted they mine emails crossing US borders. Guess where those MX pointer's IPs go?</p>
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<p>You are onto something here. I myself have overcome this horrible state and the no alcohol thing  is pretty key, along with, some better drugs/scene & the essence of hacker spirit: curiosity. My story is a bit long, but Iam willing to share if it is of interest or possibly even of help to someone. It is a horrible state and not easily solved by someone deep in that hopeless state.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 11:28:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187777</link><dc:creator>omgCPhuture</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40187777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by omgCPhuture in "Can science find ways to ease loneliness?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know a thing or two about loneliness, and overcoming it. It would be a long post to take you through, but if anyone is interested or experiencing it, I can post it in the hopes it can help or be interesting, I already wrote it, but seemed a bit long.</p>
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<p>THIS. Politics,<p>The big money drowns out even an enormous amount of citizens, hackers or not. 8 container ships cannot be a very massive income for the industries throwing money at politicians and would go a long way.  Thorium reactors would create new jobs, deal with  the problem om storing radioactive fuel rods for millions of years by making them a commodity for a new industry that makes use of them and reduces the millions of years needed to store those down to thousands of years and when we run out of nuclear waste we can continue fueling them with thorium, which is _everywhere_. The air would  get cleaner & ther is money to be made.<p>You would think  not that much political will was needed for small, big impact things like that.<p>Of course, ther eis always the chance I am insane and will wake up  from this nightmare in a haze from forcefully administered anti-psychotics via injection</p>
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<p>I cannot speak for others, but one hacker did respond w/ ideas for a couple of things he is wondering like crazy about why are not implemented because of the massive RoI. Hackers and technologists shouuld be able to join forces.<p>Maybe someone brighter than I am can explain why those things are not done post-haste.I am hardly among the brightest folks here, or anywhere. I am just curious about things. Curious, or fiend for that A-ha experience!:)</p>
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<p>Hey, I have an idea: How about we retro-fit the 8 biggest container freight ships on earth with nuclear engines like submarines, air carriers etc. have, or even electric ones.<p>That would cut the air pollution by something akin to the pollution by most of the cars on the planet, combined. Those things run on the worst sludge fossil fuel in existance.<p>So why are we not doing that?<p>I wonder because cows do not fart, they burp. And methane breaks down into water within 14 days of UV exposure in the atmosphere, and I like cows.<p>Another idea is Thorium reactors, they can run on spent fuel from traditional nuclear plants which is mostly _not used up_ and therefor must be stored millions of years. This would reduce storage time to thousands of years, make the spent rods a commodity and the physics preclude catastrophic meltdowns, make it really hard to  enrich whatever those thingies they make thermonuclear atomic weapons with.<p>.. why are we not doing that either?<p>$0.02</p>
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<p>Oh, thank heavens, I am not the only one who thinks the rest of the world are crazy. I have thought so for ... a long time but when doctors started rolling out unproved vaccines to vaccinate in the middle of a pandemic and could not find that class in medical schools, who if you can believe it teaches them to as a tool to use BEFORE everyone are sick.<p>It also made me sick with a milder version of c19, I had the first round and did not even show the slightest sign of symptons during my 3 day airport hotel quarantine. I infected my entire family, my uncle dying of cancer and half brother+gf from another country, and they all got sick enough to test themselves with positie results and told me to get tested. Days after  the lab confirmed I had it again I collapsed carrying groceries up the stairs, hyperventilating on the floor.<p>+ laundry list of things, including paying consulting compaines for web apps inMS frameworks they demanded more money for to fix when their shitty framework they built things on broke. The most serious incident lead to the compromise of our  entire government's portal for  bids and contracs on e-things & e-apps. They better ban web browsers and SQL as those things evidently are dangerous things to know.<p>The problem with this utopian idea from the TS, one I would love if was practical reality, is that that people and their stengths + knowledge differ..and also  corp money fueling stupid solutions for their own bottom line.  YOu need nation-state resources, planning and determination + brilliant people and a whole education system for it to have even a remote chance of happening. :(<p>That said, I have always been. and more and more am a firm believer in that infrastructure should be built on open source, and contribute back to it to keep the momentum once it gets going.</p>
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<p>OK, I am pretty sick of this, so excuse me for blogging a post, but decades of this crap is getting to me:<p>Ok some bad actors abuse your bad crappy gear to pwn & spy, but you, Cisco, help your government spy on everyone, including allies, I would call this karma, but the scale you are aiding and  abetting the US Gov do it on does not even compare.<p>Frankly, nobody should be using any closed source networking gear, packet switching infrastructure has become way to important to rely on $corp and $bs sales line they are pushing.  I get that you, Cisco, hav nobody to talk to about how you are being abused to aid your own government, that is how National Security Letters work: 
* Some alphabet soup picks up a phone to the domestic espionage  part of the FBI wanting something not legal as of then.
* FBI prepares another production of the dog & pony rubberstamp show trial known as FISA.
* A whole charade is put on
* and in the end the applicant gets to write a letter dictating that $us_company, must do $whatever the heck they want.
* Include a gag order
* and a friendly threat of getting charged under the Espionage Act (which essentially means you are convicted; the trial is a formality as just about any evidence is inadmissible, on national security grounds, of course.).
* Somehow not see the obviously parallel to a circle jerk 
* Simultaneously confusing me on how that is different from say. China's way of doing things, except more shady and secretive.<p>Cisco, Microsoft and Juniper should start a support group and call it Whiners Anonymous, not talk about their complicitness in Global surveillance and STFU whenever their shit code gets exploited by $anyone_else... or they could just pay for the damage in the wake of their crap exploding in our faces.<p>I recall hacker, a dude named Mike, who tried telling you I IOS had memory corruption bugs   over 20 years ago. I also remember the absolute denial about it, impossible, did not exist. "Go ahead have your talk at your Con, you look a fool.", essentially.<p>The Con came and what do you know, a bunch of Cisco lawyers show up threatning Mike, attempting to intimidate him from speaking about this thing Cisco insisted was not possible and did not exist. By then we all knew was very real, duh. Some hackers did not take lightly to the affair and sudddenly IOS source code shows up online: dumped in #darknet on EFnet from cisco.com by someone using the handle Franz. So, yeah hackers can break into  computer systems, duh. However, in my experience, those of us who hunt for 0day and develop techniques that turn seemingly small innocent bugs into barn doors you could drive a buss through are  not the ones going around causing wanton destruction or  espionage onmassive scale, but you can only piss them so many times in the face and insist it is raining before getting a reaction, and abunch of hackers  who spend their time in GDB, source code  hunting 0day can have a hell of a reaction.<p>Predating all this, of course, is Mudge & the l0pht gang, who waited forever to speak before US Officials, explaining how anyone with a BGP router could shut down the Internet in 30 minutes and reroute AS prefixes at will, in 1998: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJldn_MmMY</a><p>Mudge would eventually end up in DARPA, a gig I envy, I mean, shit, they invented Internet the web lives on, but WTF ever happened to SIGNED BGP updates?! You know, the fix!? That took a while, eh? I barely knew of him or the l0pht then, except for PHRACK #49, article 4: <a href="http://phrack.org/issues/49/4.html" rel="nofollow">http://phrack.org/issues/49/4.html</a> because I wanted to read article 14, <a href="http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html" rel="nofollow">http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html</a>. An obscure article  then, by now infamous: Smashing the Stack for Fun & Profit.  I took up Assembler and  C specifically to master what it was describing, seemed so hard then, yet so simple now.<p>Since then I have watched you, Cisco, get  expert advice & warnings from hackers and hire master hackers only to put them to the least possible good use. I believe you put one fella who went by the handle route to write your blog. Another quit and soldy ou back his new company, list goes on.<p>So, I guess my questions at this point are:
* how come you keep shitting on hackers when you mean threat actors
* seem to completely ignore warnings from the likes of us and when you do hire brilliant hackers essentially box them up and shelve them
* yet year after year, for decades manage to whine like a baby whenever your shoddy, shitty crap code? 
* Have several decades of  hackers trying to lend a hand only to get threatned, ignored or shelved not made your entire board commit seppuku?<p>I myself remember when a representative from Cisco came to our class to talk about your overpriced MIPS boxes with hw accelerated NIC modules. Security was top priority he told us, faster than any Linux router.<p>I had simple question about that: How come your devices still come with telnet and require an upgraded support contract for SSH when the UNIX world + clones all have that for free? Somehow his pause to think triggered another question in me: Did you just compare hardware routing to software routers when you claimed superior speed? I myself has leaned more to the BSDs, FreeBSD especially because of how stable, simple & flexible it was to me, with easy to read kernel code too, reading it is how I picked up coding kernel modules in general. While not perfect, that flavour of open source systems was superior simplicity  and stable networking, but I did come up on Linux, Slackware to be exact. I have endured mockery and weird looks from many growing up doing that, including my class mates when I took my bachelor degree. They soon understood I was on to something  since I just reset my VM of $pickAnOperatingSystem while they all were reinstalling. W2K Domain Controllers come to mind:)<p>Anyhow, I digress: I went and got a box from class, a couple of hardware accelerated NIC modules, which was assembled and ready2go by the time his stuttering stopped. It smoked that thing he clinged to as secure, fastest, yada yada. I will note within years that SSH thing changed for the better, though.<p>A few days later I get called into the head office to get told the Cisco representative had tried to get me expelled. For a second I was worried, after all my government was paying tens off thousands in tuiition for me to go to schoo baked on weed and pretend I learned things I already knew from years of doing things the hard way, until they assured me they had no intention of doing so, because of course, I was right and proved them wrong.<p>I ditched Windows as soon as it broke and I got beat up for -after all my Mom had VB homework and it was mere days since I used the computer she used daily, of course I was at fault and at age 11 beaten by a grown manand told to fix it: the garbled characters on thescreen was not the win95 logo. Turns out it wasrather simple, but not wanting another beating i partitioned of 250MB and booted slackware using a diskette with  LILO. Probably the best decision I ever made for myself, but I bring it up because I have had it with huge ass corporations bitching about their expensive stuff breaking because they did polish the turd before shipping.<p>* So, is denial not only a river in Egypt, but corporate policy along with threats and intimidation at Cisco?<p>Not much has changed since then, except the cuter naming of things, like IronPort Email Gateway my own government uses that might as well be called Buggy Port with all the easy ways to sneak stuff past it. Ordinary people like myself have no choice but to put up with out tax dollars being spent on crap with bugs and backdoors up the wazoo, not to mention the effects it has on us when it breaks.<p>Whatever the case may be,  after 20+ years of acting like a bitch whenever your crap blow up in everyones face, could you please SHUT that PR Campaign of whining the fuck up? Either you suck, or you are doing this on purpose, and it is not like hackers have not tried to help you out for over 25 years.<p>HEY, Cisco Microsoft can bond over that, after all they denied the existance of security bugs until 1999 when finally CVEs started coming out and now number over 7000, but hey, anyone could mislabel a Doormat as Defender and accidentally steal lots of peoples code to parse file headers and manage to screw up the copy/paste, after all that seems to be modus operandi ever since they did that to the BSD TCP/IP stack. How do you manage to mess up a copy of the free, premier  networking stack of the day? I guess Bill was in a Rush because MArc tuned out to be serious enough to put his company sporting some thing called Mosaic (whatever that is!:) on the stock exchange, eh?<p>To add insult to injury we pay sales reps posing as consultants to setup and run  all this crap, so is that endless PR complaining of whining like little bitches really necessary? Could it not be either or?<p>I am so sick of the endless bull shit from Cisco & co I could go on for eons, but I am hungry and need to get my bake on, but i really hope a meteor shower strikes all of Cisco HQ, and would not cry if a Tunguska even sized comet hit MS in Redmond, except may from joy.<p></bitchingAboutBitches></p>
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