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Comment Re:idiots already have been arrested (Score 3, Interesting) 196

I also believe that there are databases that trace bill serial numbers to the ATMs that distributed them. The banks probably had a database of every bill issued to the criminals. Once they surfaced anywhere, they were going to be tracked. Also, nobody in underworld finance would dare launder that heist. Those were toxic bills and probably why they got caught quickly.

Comment Look at Pwn20wn at CanSec West (Score 1) 260

Pwn20wn is probably the high bar for programming contests. Charlie Miller can walk in there and drop a 0-day for Chrome on the judges and walk out with a check for $100k. Is this not the market at work? Is browser sandbox security now such an integral part of the internet security landscape that it warrants the need to pay, and pay fruitfully for the knowledge of how these exploits work? A young guy, maybe 18, nobody heard of, with no real internet 'cred' from Eastern Europe, who had no real degree or CS education, walked in with an IE9 exploit that defeated DEP once it broke out. It also worked around address randomization.

Unless that guy shows up and earns his rep that way, what's he going to do? Just start a blog and put the exploit code on it?

I would argue that these programming contests are pure market forces, about as pure an application of the free market as one will see on the world stage.

Comment Sung to the tune of Mirror in the Bathroom... (Score 1) 442

Water in containment
please don't heat
The door is locked
just you and me.
Can I take you to a temperature
that melts glass sweet
You can watch yourself
while you are eating me.
Water in containment
I just can't stop it,
Every Saturday you see me
furiously mopping.
Find no interest in the
pipes and welds
Just a thousand isotopes
in my own sweet self...
Water in containment
You're the water in containment
You're my water in containment
You're my water in containment...
Water in containment

Comment So Craigslist is Mos Eisley then? (Score 4, Funny) 316

Luke: You know, I think that R2 unit we bought may have been stolen.
Uncle Owen: What makes you think that?
Luke: Well, I stumbled across a recording while I was cleaning him. He says that he belongs to someone named Obi-Wan Kenobi. I thought he might have meant old Ben. Do you know what he's talking about?
Uncle Owen: Just a fucking Craigslist thing, you know how it is.
Luke: I wonder if he's related to Ben.
Uncle Owen: That wizard is just a crazy old internet pervert. Now, tomorrow I want you to take that R2 unit to Anchorhead and have it's memory erased. That'll be the end of it. It belongs to us now.

Comment Johnny Mnemonic says... (Score 1) 308

Build a username which uses Acrostics or Chunking of the place you are going.

My Yahoo account is GPLDANJCYS, which stands for me + Jesus Christ Yahoo Sucks.

Then, you know exactly who is leaking and linking your information, and how you feel about them to begin with.

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