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Society has devolved a bit when not long ago a heist like this would involve sieging Nakatomi Plaza, now it takes just finding a bug in someone's defective Pyth

Society has devolved a bit when not long ago a heist like this would involve sieging Nakatomi Plaza, now it takes just finding a bug in someone's defective Python codes.

Klaster_1 2y ago
I wonder how many programmers resort to crime after they were laid off and couldn't find a job. Like soldiers after a war.
- skeeter2020 2y ago
  not related to the current western market, but countries like Romania pre EU had a huge surplus of soviet-educated young people and no jobs. This definitely increased their involvement with "informal" economies for some time.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
  Most likely these programmers are serving in the DPRK Unit 180.
- adhamsalama 2y ago
  That's pretty much what ex-IDF members do, but they set it up as a company so it becomes legal somehow, I guess...
- wyre 2y ago
  That might make for a good book or movie plot.
  - NetOpWibby 2y ago
    Starring Rami Malek, Tom Holland, Kyla Pratt, and George Clooney?
  - mablopoule 2y ago
    It was the basis of the plot of the first Jurassic Park movie. All shenanigans started because Dennis Nedry, the parc IT manager, disabled some security system at a bad time so he could sell some company secrets to concurrents. There are interesting character analysis to do between the book and the movie version, where the book version or Dennis Nedry is way more sympathetic (even if flawed), he's a extremely talented IT guy who was undersold the amount of work to do in the park, kinda stuck doing unpaid overwork in a remote island and generally been fleeced by a way more villainous book John Hammond.
- ooterness 2y ago
  Relevant comedy sketch? "Secret agent squad, but they're all just the hacking guy." https://youtu.be/cL7lhbtWwbY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/cL7lhbtWwbY?feature=shared
evantbyrne 2y ago
It has been this way since the dawn of electronic banking. I once had complete access to all digital wallets for the Seattle metro, which I gained by looking at two cards and noticing the numbers were incrementing. Even with all of the flaws of electronic transactions, it's still better than walking to the bank and hoping a check won't bounce.
SheinhardtWigCo 2y ago
I think you mean evolved - remote work culture is paying dividends!
ratg13 2y ago
You just gotta trust the wrong people. Don’t forget FTX willingly hired the Ultimate Bet “god mode” guy.
grues-dinner 2y ago
You don't even have to break into a wierd high-tech vault to get an unreasonably slow (or fast) billion-dollar progress bar with a snazzy custom UI toolkit these days. Not sure if technology or inflation is most to blame!
- skeeter2020 2y ago
  yes, this part won't play well in the movie: it takes just as long to transfer a billion as a dollar; the progress bar won't allow any time to build suspense... will they finish in time? cuts between parallel timelines...
  - Scotrix 2y ago
    well, min. required network confirmations could still replace the progress bar. I certainly pressed reload anxiously quite a few times :-)

Society has devolved a bit when not long ago a heist like this would involve sieging Nakatomi Plaza, now it takes just finding a bug in someone's defective Python codes.

Klaster_1 2y ago

I wonder how many programmers resort to crime after they were laid off and couldn't find a job. Like soldiers after a war.

skeeter2020 2y ago
not related to the current western market, but countries like Romania pre EU had a huge surplus of soviet-educated young people and no jobs. This definitely increased their involvement with "informal" economies for some time.
EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
Most likely these programmers are serving in the DPRK Unit 180.
adhamsalama 2y ago
That's pretty much what ex-IDF members do, but they set it up as a company so it becomes legal somehow, I guess...
wyre 2y ago
That might make for a good book or movie plot.
- NetOpWibby 2y ago
  Starring Rami Malek, Tom Holland, Kyla Pratt, and George Clooney?
- mablopoule 2y ago
  It was the basis of the plot of the first Jurassic Park movie. All shenanigans started because Dennis Nedry, the parc IT manager, disabled some security system at a bad time so he could sell some company secrets to concurrents. There are interesting character analysis to do between the book and the movie version, where the book version or Dennis Nedry is way more sympathetic (even if flawed), he's a extremely talented IT guy who was undersold the amount of work to do in the park, kinda stuck doing unpaid overwork in a remote island and generally been fleeced by a way more villainous book John Hammond.
ooterness 2y ago
Relevant comedy sketch? "Secret agent squad, but they're all just the hacking guy." https://youtu.be/cL7lhbtWwbY?feature=shared https://youtu.be/cL7lhbtWwbY?feature=shared

evantbyrne 2y ago

It has been this way since the dawn of electronic banking. I once had complete access to all digital wallets for the Seattle metro, which I gained by looking at two cards and noticing the numbers were incrementing. Even with all of the flaws of electronic transactions, it's still better than walking to the bank and hoping a check won't bounce.

SheinhardtWigCo 2y ago

I think you mean evolved - remote work culture is paying dividends!

ratg13 2y ago

You just gotta trust the wrong people. Don’t forget FTX willingly hired the Ultimate Bet “god mode” guy.

grues-dinner 2y ago

You don't even have to break into a wierd high-tech vault to get an unreasonably slow (or fast) billion-dollar progress bar with a snazzy custom UI toolkit these days. Not sure if technology or inflation is most to blame!

skeeter2020 2y ago
yes, this part won't play well in the movie: it takes just as long to transfer a billion as a dollar; the progress bar won't allow any time to build suspense... will they finish in time? cuts between parallel timelines...
- Scotrix 2y ago
  well, min. required network confirmations could still replace the progress bar. I certainly pressed reload anxiously quite a few times :-)