There is a special sort of irony in watching a bunch of whitehats cry about a whitehat getting doxed.
When you can't sell enough fear, uncertainty and doubt, so you fake the malware samples in your AV demo. @CylanceInc #justwhitehatthings
>discover Let's Encrypt free SSL certs
>use it for phishing and other shady garbage
>immediately ruin it for everyone
#justskidthings
When you're a security company, but the new policy has you installing anti-virus on your workstation. #justwhitehatthings
When your less tech-savvy coworkers forward you phishing emails as "something you might be interested in." #justwhitehatthings
Worrying that the developers you disclosed to will fix your XSS before you can get a CVE. #justwhitehatthings
state actor (n.) - a story concocted by a whitehat to make himself relevant to people too dumb to realize they're being conned.
Releasing the source of your darknet site in a desperate struggle to keep attention on you. #justskidthings
When your crew's idea of secret communication is password-protected blog posts on WordPress. #justskidthings
When maintaining the best opsec means that no one will know who you are or what you've done. #justblackhatthings
Believing that you can maintain good opsec and cultivate eFame at the same time. #justskidthings
When your rootkit is copy and pasted from the book Designing BSD Rootkits. #justskidthings
When your Twitter handle is a concept that you can't even begin to understand. #justskidthings
Posting a picture of a modem control panel and claiming that you can control a satellite. #justskidthings
The anxiety when a nick you don't recognize joins your IRCd. #justblackhatthings
When one of the squad is compromised so everything you use as a group has to be audited. #justblackhatthings
Writing an anti-virus engine that is in effect one big backdoor into the system. #justwhitehatthings
Running a hacker-for-hire darknet site, paid in advance b/c you've no intention of hacking anything. #justskidthings
Knowing that no matter how many networks you hack, you can never catch up to the NSA/GCHQ. #justblackhatthings
Getting a job at a large internet company to collect intel and gain access to your target. #justblackhatthings
