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by grugq 7y ago
Exactly so.
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by grugq 7y ago
Yup. About $20k USD that I had withdrawn. It was a payment to a developer. If you look closely you can see all the paper towels the photog stuffed into the bag. (He also tried to steal one of the stacks, lol. It was his bag, and when he gav
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by grugq 7y ago
In the real world where people do transactions for money they send invoices and do bank transfers. I believe some companies offer cash in hand or bitcoin payments, but by no means is that “the way it is done”
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by grugq 7y ago
Yes. It is less than any salary I could make at a company if I could get a job. But that article was a career limiting move. C’est la vie. Never talk to reporters unless you have a specific reason to. Definitely don’t talk to reporters who
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by grugq 7y ago
As I said, I should update it. When I wrote it Android devices never got patched (hence the advice to switch to a FOSS rom that would be updated, rather than a frozen in time factory ROM.) Security involves a lot more than just access to th
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by grugq 7y ago
Sorry, to clarify I was referring to the voice of industry insiders. I mean that no one who knows is willing to speak about it. There is so much bullshit about the “highly lucrative black market” it is staggering. The market is not big. The
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by grugq 7y ago
Think of it like GMO. There are two sides with legitimate concerns. But only one side can speak publicly. As for backdoored Chrome, what is to prevent China using a modified version of Firefox that removes the backdoor? It would blind NSA t
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by grugq 7y ago
Yeah, that’s part of the hatchet job. I said I was projecting sales of $1M over the year. At 15% commission that would be $150k. You can make a lot more money than that, I’m sure. Also, don’t predict your sales funnel in February when you h
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by grugq 7y ago
Exactly
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by grugq 7y ago
It does not.
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by grugq 7y ago
+1
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by grugq 7y ago
The jailbreak community will not be getting these. They make more money continuing to sell to China than they will make selling to Apple.
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by grugq 7y ago
Unregulated markets are not black markets. They are grey markets.
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by grugq 7y ago
Who are these individuals that will pay millions of dollars for an exploit? Cyber criminals rely almost exclusively on dead bugs, frequently using exploits from the metasploit framework. That gives then sufficient access to a broad range of
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by grugq 7y ago
Yes, because that is exactly the sort of behavior that a business would engage in. Screwing over their suppliers and demonstrating that they offer no value whatsoever. How would that make any sense? It is ludicrous.
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by grugq 7y ago
It is not illegal to sell that type of software. It is not a black market, it is a grey market. There is no way you will ever hear authentic answers to your questions. The only time anyone tried to explain that the resulting article backfir
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by grugq 8y ago
Sure, they aren’t stealing to supply their own business but to supply their partying. Apparently there’s some trick involved in selecting a dealer who offers a variety of options, not just one substance. They cache one or more of each in an
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by grugq 8y ago
Dead drop based drug distribution doesn’t scale to retail levels. It is used in Moscow and I know of people who will order from a dealer, then search the surrounding area and clear out all the drops they find. It works for them, although on
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by grugq 8y ago
Thanks. Should maybe put in (2015) in the title as well? It is old and hasn’t been updated. I stand by my assessment at the time, but I haven’t checked Telegram since then and don’t know what, if anything, has changed.
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by grugq 8y ago
It is plagiarism, that is not debatable. After contacting the author he has removed the plagiarized content.
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by grugq 8y ago
Yes. Plagiarism is stealing another authors ideas, words, or expressions and representing them as one’s own work. And I’m pretty sure comments like this are against HN policy as they degrade the quality of discourse.
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by grugq 8y ago
Thanks
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by grugq 8y ago
He did only after I publicly called him out[0]. And it is still plagiarism. “Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressi
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by grugq 8y ago
Not sure what the policy is on plagiarism, but this post plagiarized my write up. The structure is the same and the section headings are the same. It is blatant plagiarism. https://link.medium.com/cWfUtKQjgT
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by grugq 9y ago
I'm still a bit lost as to what legitimate use a Congressional candidate would have for anonymity. If they need someone to do adversarial research anonymously, they should "have people for that"... since if the anonymity is b
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by grugq 9y ago
Fully laid out and explained here: https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef51648...
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by grugq 9y ago
I didn't like their report which is why I wrote my guide.
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by grugq 9y ago
From the pictures on Facebook there was no sign of a struggle, the woman in the cell next to him and the cop monitoring the cells both told the same story. It is unlikely that the Thai police would suicide someone for drug crimes that were
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by grugq 9y ago
If you sold 2000 glocks to the police you'd be fine. If you sold 2 glocks to MS-13, you'd have problems. It is someone without the right customers.
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by grugq 10y ago
Yes.

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