Ok, we're doing the "we don't know who you are thing".

I'll be more careful to speak simply next time we have that rare moment we're all being professional.

I didn't really grok cryptography until I used this:

https://inventwithpython.com/cracking/chapter5.html

Part of it was bad teaching -- same lessons over and over til you're exhausted doing ROT13, it's better to do one exercise on paper and have it be the Vigenère cipher or by the time you're covering something beyond the Ovaltine cipher the campers will be too tired to learn.

People focus too much on busywork in these classes, when modern analysis will be done using a computer. Maybe in a SCIF, but... there will be a computer involved.

A few scripts to easily brute force weird shit you find on other people's machines can be useful, or so I've heard -- also who calls it a "kaiser cipher"? Tell me that and I can tell you the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything.

I know a lot of famous people. (STEM people, not the arts -- I'm not literally sitting in a cafe with Taylor Swift despite what Twitter may have told you)

I also knew a lot of people who never became famous who drove me to become an underground hacker.

Be EXTREMELY wary of any success story that doesn't give specific strategies beyond "work hard" lest you realize that selective silence boosted someone who's... not a monster... but shows up at the finish line to espouse ideas they shot down for decades.

Commercial use.

Let someone use it at home, then be forced to pay a license at "work".

(I regret being such a socialist in my 20s)

Also there's the comedy option of selling zero days you yourself inserted.

(I tend to just use them, since CERT was rude.)

You’re funny

Should we urge someone that young to do such extreme activity? I'm the happiest and healthiest of my life when I'm able to manage my depression with weed and just walk for exercise. I worry focusing on metrics like how many pounds can induce some really bad things into people's heads.

(Also you neglected the exact age.)

I thought he was implying he invested in Tesla itself?

Also, just because you have a huge bankroll doesn't make money worth less.

15k is 15k, regardless of how much you have in the bank.

It's valid either way to be angry about being mislead for a figure that would be a felony if merely yanked out of one's wallet.

> Also, just because you have a huge bankroll doesn't make money worth less.

Actually that's exactly what it means. Like pretty much everything else, money follows the law of diminishing marginal utility.

Anybody who invested in TSLA in 2016 doesn't have a whole lot to complain about, imo.

A bit early to start the summer of George OP, it's not even Valentine's Day ;-)

(Also, anyone got a good way to get around the paywall so I can read this in it's entitety? Wayback machine doesn't have it archived, womp womp.)

I deleted my Facebook and Instagram.

At least now, when I binge, I tend to learn something :-)

Just one dog? How bitey are we talking?