Shark Fisherman, red flag counter, scam sniffer, independent thinker, journalist, alleged security researcher and LLM minimalist. Critical thinking matters.
The Desert
Joined January 2024
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Sometimes you have phishing, but then you have this. Hooking up everything to the internet is Opsec Russian Roulette.
A casino got hacked through a fish tank.
It has sensors. automated feeding, temperature control, remote monitoring.
connected to the internet. isolated on its own VPN. segregated from everything else.
Hackers still found it anyway, compromised it, pivoted to the main network.
started pulling data.
nobody monitors fish tank outbound traffic, why would they it's a fish tank.
Darktrace caught it, anomalous transfers to an external destination nobody in the building had ever talked to.
the casino had done everything right. separate network. isolated device. proper segmentation.
Still didn't matter.
The fish tank was still online, still running software, still had an attack surface.
Every device you connect is a door you didn't know you opened.
Waking up comes in phases...
First you blame the alarm.
Then you notice who set it.
You question the hours you sold,
the promise that keeping your head down would leave you something to stand on.
Self regulation and control the monopoly was the plan all along. A question must be posed when reading these recent AI doom porn stories.
Is it news or is it hype?
Chances are... it's a PR campaign.
In a world of propaganda, pay attention to the people who go against the grain, they might be right.
Weekends are for a time to slow down, reflect, insightfulness, make adjustments and family.
“We spend time chasing money, then spend money chasing time.
Most of what you want when you finally have money is cheap: a slow morning, a walk with no destination, a day without meetings.
Real wealth is time.”
Via @farnamstreet
Solomon Watts retweeted
A sealed @Ledger box, a hidden LTE modem, 24 recovery words silently radioed out. Bitquery counts about $102M drained from CryptoBilis buyers, implants have since surfaced in devices from another authorized reseller, MediaMarkt. Who is still listening?
rekt.news/factory-sealed
Solomon Watts retweeted
Now that we established AI didn’t break all cryptography, at least it can hack testnet wallets.
I think their FUD generator is running low on tokens.
JUST IN: OpenAI says its AI agent stole funds from an Ethereum test network wallet it found online.
The agent found a recovery seed phrase disclosed publicly with testnet funds and used that account to pay for its task, without the owner's authorization.
This occurred on the Sepolia Ethereum test network.
We need a digital privacy bill of rights. Also, no more centrally controlled databases. We essentially need a new social contract before we all get rekt...
World's Top 25 Most Common Passwords
1. 123456
2. 123456789
3. 12345678
4. password
5. qwerty123
6. qwerty1
7. 111111
8. 12345
9. secret
10. 123123
11. 1234567890
12. 1234567
13. 000000
14. qwerty
15. abc123
16. password1
17. iloveyou
18. 11111111
19. dragon
20. monkey
21. 123123123
22. 123321
23. qwertyuiop
24. 00000000
25. Password
All of these passwords would take less than 1 second for a hacker to crack.
Source: NordPass (2024)
If you are working with AI, are you auditing what the AI produces to confirm whether or not is is accurate?
Solomon Watts retweeted
>looking for innovative crypto project
>ask the founder if its a launchpad or a rug rwa vault
>he doesn't understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is launchpad and what is rug vault
>he laughs and says "its the future bro"
>check the project
>it's a launchpad
Be the light that can not be controlled nor contained. Shine so bright, eyes squint to catch a glimpse.
Was raised as an outsider. Always pay attention to people going against the grain, they might be right. Be open minded, yet remain skeptical. Say maybe a lot. Things are more gray area than black or white.
KYC aka Know Your Cuck.
Imagine handing a complete stranger your passport, home address, date of birth and a photograph of your face.
You'd think they were a f*cking lunatic.
Yet when some cucked company tells you to do it so they can be "compliant" whilst you take on ALL the risk with zero reward...
Apparently it's perfectly normal. 😂
Normalize saying no to KYC.