making sure to share these relations On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 9:16 AM Karl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/14/21, wrote: > > > >> What brought you to message me? have you received other posts i've > made? > > > > I am getting your messages through the cypherpunk email list. I think > > they are pretty entertaining to read so I thought I would message you. > > Huh :-) > > >> Exploits were a closekept secret found by experienced in-depth > >> analysis of systems and specific-purpose tools that can be hard to > >> share and find. > >> > >> I'm guessing that pentesting and anti- intrusion systems are pretty > >> helpful, covering similar ground. > >> > >> It's important work, especially in this day and age. > > Yeah. It's also fascinating that companies leave back doors open to give > > governments and agencies the possibility for hacking civilians and other > > governments... I read about it recently. > > Below two paragraphs could be inaccurate, i'm pretty confused. > > It's unfortunate to learn that goes down to the chip level, for me. > In AOL Instant Messenger, AOL was found to be using a bug in their own > code to access people's systems. > > I heard it was kind of a fun thing system engineer-administrators > could do long ago. Nobody understood anything but them, and > technology wasn't used for anything important, and leaving a way to > access systems made it much easier to fix bugs. > > Seems there's a scary element I never learned about. >
