We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s a reason Mr Robot is still incredibly popular

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That, and because it’s at least moderately accurate to how actual infosec breaches work

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Fight club for nerds afraid to get punched” is my favorite description, even tho Elliot routinely gets his ass beat.

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• leoj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  closest thing we had to it was arrested in a Mcdonalds because some dumbass making less than 12 dollars and hour dropped a dime on him.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Luigi is innocent, we were playing videogames together

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He really shouldn’t have stopped in Allentown. That’s the redneck meth capital of PA.

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  • Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And I don’t think they even got the reward money they claimed they’d give out for turning him in but I’m not sure.

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    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They did not

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I thought I read somewhere that they actually used face rec and CCTV, but leaked that it was a call-in tip to obfuscate the extent of the surveillance state from the public?

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    • Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And he just happened to still be carrying around a backpack full of evidence several days later for funzies. Convenient.

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    • leoj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, I don’t doubt that honestly, makes a lot more sense to me especially since they never got any reward money.

      Also could of been a way to “legalize” the illegally obtained facial recognition, or some other form of illegal intelligence gathering.

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    because some dumbass making less than 12 dollars and hour dropped a dime on him.

    You really should learn about how that actually happened…

    Because it’s most likely going to be how the case gets thrown out. If you care about it, I don’t know why anyone would willing stay ignorant

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    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Less hints more links my guy! Strong “parallel construction” vibes but I haven’t seen anything real solid yet and like to think I’m reasonably tuned in

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  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The deification of Luigi really pisses me off because he didn’t do shit to help anyone. Robin Hood wasn’t a deranged murderer, he stole from the rich to help the poor. What the fuck did Luigi actually accomplish with his idiotic “plan”? It just shows how dire the current situation is that people are desperately latching onto that clown as some kind of revolutionary, when in reality he is nothing of the sort.

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    • unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In the aftermath there was a wave of insurance companies approving procedures they had been stalling for a while. People’s cancer treatments were finally approved and a multitude of common folk where allowed to live because the rich realized how vulnerable they are.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Luigi wasn’t deranged either. He was stopping a mass murderer who monetized suffering. Luigi made the world a better place with a little perseverance and resourcefulness. It’s admiring to see folks still want to work.

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    • leoj@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We can agree to disagree on this one, I think every single thing you said is incorrect. I hope you have a good day, and I also hope your life saving or even life improving medical treatments are never denied due to insufficient authorization.

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• mrfriki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And modern day guillotine while at it.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The neat thing is that guillotine technology has advanced quite far since the French revolution

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I need to rewatch Tucker and Dale vs Evil.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  pretty much the plot of mr. robot

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• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I really hate that the exaggerated future of Watchdogs is becoming reality but not the exaggerated group of highly experienced black hat hackers doing crazy post compromise shenanigans that would make national news.

  The problem is the same reason why a Robin Hood type of character already doesn’t really exist in modern history. There will always be thousands of highly skilled people in defense of the very system you wish to see dissolved.

  You would need the resources of at least a highly advanced APT, which often means you’re funded by a nation state which has very specific compromise goals.

  Everyone else falls into cybercrime, which is much less sophisticated and is almost always after money.

  Hence why most highly publicized attacks end in bitcoin ransoms.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We need to not expect some hero figure to appear and change our world for us.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Having worked with highly regulated industries like banking, health care, and others that a “Robin Hood” hacker would target I can say that it’s not feasible.

  Do you know how many days of Zoom meetings they’d have to be on to compromise just one system?

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s management. The actual physical RFID card generator is on an employee’s Windows laptop with the password sticky noted on the screen.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Okay so now you’re in one system in one company. And that person still needs approval and a four hour zoom call to push anything into a position where it can make a difference.

      I know, I’ve been on dozens of calls like that.

      And even then you’ve pwned one of about a dozen companies.

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You know how hard it is to hack with bow and arrow?
  gamerant.com/hawkeye-best-trick-arrows-from-comic…

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• moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are tons, op. Getting ahold of a corporate card and ordering strangers (maybe you’re one of them, maybe you aren’t) presents is a classic for a reason. You just never hear about victories of the resistance, that’s kinda propaganda 101

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• albbi@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was just thinking about all the industrial spying China has done over the years. Would be awful if someone released their secrets for battery tech in their cars (if they actually exist).

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  • Zirconium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or billions of studies being hosted on torrent sites, oh the misery of publishers

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• Object@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We already kinda do.

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