I used to waste too much time here poking people in the eye just b/c most people on this planet need to be poked in the eye.

I was banned for my political views.

Don't you people realize that 90% of the stuff that 90% of the people in the world think is gospel truth is actually BS?

Some of you may remember me, I used to spend a lot of time here and in the security thread. I used to love to prove that people did not know what they were talking about; especially when it came to viruses, system intrusion, system repair and system surveillance of any kind but most often about deep state stuff.

There was one person, I don't remember their handle who had to rebut everything I posted.

We had one big go round about how vulnerable the US electrical grid really is. He/she knew for a fact that the grid was 100% safe from attack b/c their son did grid sec and told them all was right with the world.

I replied that either the kid was not good at their job or not allowed to tell them the truth. They went ballistic and posted a bunch of links "proving" the grid is secure.

I waste a lot of time hanging out a lot of places that let me pick up a lot of things a lot earlier than most folks hear about it.

It can be fun. It also means I have to be careful about what I go spitting out on the web publicly. The wrong stuff starts showing in the spyders and there are folks who would take retribution.

But, now the main stream has caught up some and I can post this b/c it's made it in to the papers.

It's an ESEST white paper on grid vulns.

Like a big pizza pie that's amore!

From things I've read, seen and heard from sources I really can't get in to the stuff ESEST is decompiling is only about 12-18 months behind the actual bleeding edge of where this tech currently is. Some of the nation states that have a big problem with the US *supposedly* have a lot better stuff in their arsenals.

People should really learn who to read.

If you haven't read at least 10 white papers this week, don't know how to securely decompile a virus sample in a truly isolated VM on a custom compiled hardened kernel *and* (not or) don't know how to find where the real silk road moved to (and not all of the kiddie BS that popped up in its place as a huge diversion) then you ain't in the game! (And neither am I; not really and truly. I just like to watch it all circle the drain.)

Peace,
through superior firepower!

That may have been me since my Son works in utility security service but I never said it was 100% safe since that is absurd and impossible. I have worked in network security for a considerable length of time and anyone who works in it for even a lousy month knows the only 100% secure computer is one never plugged in. By definition defense is primarily a reactive effort since the ante is always being raised by those who wish to gain something by intrusion. Sometimes that means, or at the very least can mean, that we can't know a vulnerability until someone has already exploited it. I also don't recall posting any links to prove what is well-known to be impossible, but then it could have been someone else or maybe, just maybe, you just enjoy conflict and confrontation .