how come hackers never do anything cool like erase debt or steal from the ultra wealthy or completely obliterate the credit reporting agencies

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@hipsterelectron @be @aeva The physical manifestation of a corporation is a piece of paper, and if you were to get your hands on it, yeah, you could break a corporation in half with almost no effort at all. Fighting the lawyer guarding it would be kind of tricky, though.

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@madengineering @be @aeva i have defeated harvard legal scholars before and i could lay waste to a revolving-door corporate scumbag

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@hipsterelectron @be @aeva Sounds like there will be a big ink bath on our hands then.

[seacow@mastodon.art]

@aeva ben kingsley tried but robert redford stopped him https://youtu.be/uBM_0kLbdb4

[cyberquixote@infosec.exchange]

@howtophil @madengineering @aeva

all knowledge disavowed, and all hardware to do said crimes exploded

[madengineering@hachyderm.io]

@cyberquixote @howtophil @aeva If anyone asks, the exploded hardware in my house was me trying to test my antilogic computer out in a cave, it failed, and I'm just trying to clean up properly and not pollute the environment, please don't tell the insurance company.

[lackthereof@beige.party]

@aeva
Hi, backend dev for SEC-compliant enterprise NAT here.

Basically because the record keeping laws in place to guard against financial fraud in major institutions also mandate a level of data redundancy and immutability that incidentally guards against such tampering to a level that approaches the US military. Every file creation, update, delete is revision controlled.

Imagine a fictional financial institution, let's call them Jigglypuff's Professional Money Cabal. First, they don't even have root-user access on their own storage. They can't override the legally mandated retention policy -- even in the off-site backup systems -- without a kernel patch that can't be installed unless it's signed with their storage manufacturer's private key. And at the first sign of compromise, the Cabal runbook is to just immediately flatten the whole thing, reinstall a clean system, and restore from the nearest geo.

Even if you go full Fight Club and physically destroy the buildings, in multiple cities, they've got another fully redundant and air gapped disaster recovery storage system literally in a bunker underneath a Colorado mountain.

[cyberquixote@infosec.exchange]

@madengineering @howtophil @aeva

what exploded hardware?

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva I think it's because a choice between cashing bug bounties vs. someone putting a bounty on your head, sadly

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

man, there's nothing sadder than people going to bat for the criminals who know in their hearts that better things aren't possible and just set their aim at the little people instead

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

anthropic and nvidia *wouldn't even notice if you robbed them*

[elseweather@mastodon.social]

@aeva everyone in your replies is talking about the IRS and stuff having crazy security which is fair. but that's different from History's Most Engorged Startups

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@aeva So, trying to hack banks to delete all evidence of every debt would be cool, but, it's kind of a self-sacrifice option and you probably only get one shot at it.

[tengkuizdihar@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva who do you think bankrolled their infra lol

[tengkuizdihar@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hipsterelectron @aeva You can, but you have to make sure your work are done based on sheer amount of will, and spite

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

maybe go boost my art instead of being a sad party

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@seacow Stopped? He went out for pizza.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@aeva You mean like this?
https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/117477728892820043

[pelle@veganism.social]

@aeva on #DarknetDiaries there's an interview with someone who erased the records of student debt at a uni. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/139