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Yesterday Spanish authorities announced the arrest of individuals in Spain operating as a group under the moniker 'Anonymous Fénix' (Phoenix, but in Spanish).
The group of four carried out DDoS attacks against government infrastructure in Spain ... while residing in Spain.
Threat Actors (and also low-key law enforcement) will tell you it's a poor decision to perform cyber attacks in the country you reside in. It makes it much easier for authorities to collect evidence and arrest you. The phrase, "don't shit where you sleep" is used here.
Anonymous Fénix openly took credit on social media (X and Telegram) by writing they are "the responsible for the tragedy" [sic]
While Guardia Civil (military police force in Spain, handles cybercrime stuff and other stuff like terrorism) has apprehended all four individuals, no information has been released on the charges they face.
Depending on how the courts decide to punish the four individuals, each person is facing 6 months - 5 years.
Picture via Guardia Civil
Sometimes when I'm not motivated to do malware stuff (sickness or burnout), I keep my brain active by switching subjects.
I really enjoy history (all forms of it). I enjoy reading about other sciences. I also really enjoy reading philosophy and pretending to understand it and pretending to remember anything they're saying (I've read Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" and "Beyond Good and Evil" twice, can barely remember anything besides core concepts).
Because I am sick I have been reading about health and medicine, specifically in the historical context.
I'm not a physician. I am not a medical expert. I like to ask dumb questions about the body and see stuff about it. I discovered today that someone had the same question as me, "why can't we replace human blood with milk?"
Why? I don't know. Milk is pretty good. What if a patient is dying of blood loss or something, can we just fill them up with milk? Can we replace the blood with milk?
This question was asked in 1873. Physicians tried replacing blood with milk from cows or goats. They tried both old milk and milk freshly ... milked ... from the animal (they had an animal in the operating room). It turns out, if you inject milk into someone, in an attempt to replace their blood, it will kill them. Blood is really complicated, or something, and it turns out you can't just replace it with milk.
When you try a milk transfusion, it causes kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, fat embolism (milk curdles in the veins, I don't know), severe immune system reaction, etc.
Anyway, if you're curious: do not try to replace your blood with milk.
Medical startup idea
Pour some sort of cement mix into the lungs from nose, connected externally to a string
Let the cement solidify
When cement is solid, pull the string.
Cement comes out and pulls out all the nasty stuff in your lungs too
I've cured Emphysema
Colorado politicians are smoking methamphetamine for even thinking an OS-based age verification system could work.
If it's local on someones machine it will be damn near impossible to prevent tampering. Beyond the difficulty of forcing it on something like Linux, nerds have historically shown to be incredibly persistent and grumpy when forced to do something they don't like.
For example, I purchased these goofy little toy things for my baby boy called a "Tonies". I was surprised to find there was a "Tonies" hacker community. Basically, any sort of thing nerds don't like, some small niche community pops up to bonk it with a stick.
If in the event an OS-level age verification system appeared, I wholeheartedly believe every nerd on the planet would unite to fight it, tamper with it, break it, reverse engineer it, and make politicians lives miserable.
In summary, it's a "nice idea" for politicians, but it would invoke weaponized autism on an international scale.
California is proposing California Assembly Bill 1709 (AB 1709).
It's age verification on the internet (again). This makes this the 3rd, or 4th, state in the United States wanting to introduce additional legislation on age verification online. This is different than the current pending federal law Kid Online Safety Act (KOSA).
tl;dr
California say social media bad, social media must verify age somehow, and social media needs to work with law enforcement to stop bad stuff online
Non-tl;dr is California politicians assert social media is dangerous to children and online platforms must introduce safety guardrails to prevent children from being on the website and/or becoming addicted.
California Governor Newsom anecdotally stated his daughter is addicted to her cell phone, stating at a birthday party they went to all of the children were on their phones instead of speaking with each other.
He continues by stating the current generation (Z, Alpha) have "never been more anxious, less free, more stressed, and we have to address this issue".
The current bill, which is EXTREMELY bare-bones, states social media platforms must establish minimum age requirements to open and maintain a social media account. Additionally, the bill proposes social media platforms set and establish an active law enforcement person of contact. This is put in place in the event of potentially threatening and/or dangerous content on social media.
The bill does not have any solutions in place on how to determine someones age, law enforcement actions possible, how persons of contact would be established, penalties, etc.
I remember when a few ransomware operators were on social media and people were eager to engage with them (in some capacity). No one was overtly rude.
This person ransomed healthcare facilities, schools, places of worship, government institutions.
They profited millions upon millions of dollars from extortion, money laundering, and aggravated identify theft.
Conversely, the CEO of Persona is now active on social media and people are eager to engage with them (in some capacity). People appear to strongly dislike this person.
They dislike this CEO so much, and so passionately, even me memeing alongside them has me framed as a villain.
I'm not implying anything as I write this. This is strictly an observational post. But I'm like, "wow, they hate this guy more than the dude who extorts childrens hospitals"
Chat, I've got excellent news you're going to love. I'll break this down into two parts. I'll provide the mega tl;dr because most of you are lazy. Then I'll do the actual explanation.
tl;dr Mark Zuckerberg is proposing age verification should be handled at the Operating System, at least on mobile devices.
Non-tl;dr
Meta is being sued because a bunch of people said Meta intentionally made platforms such as Instagram addictive to kids. The people suing Meta assert Meta didn't provide any safeguards to protect kids from Instagram addiction.
One person suing Meta claims Meta messed her up, fried her brain (I'm super paraphrasing, she didn't literally say that). She sued TikTok and Snapchat. They settled for an undisclosed amount. Google and Meta are fighting this lady.
The court case is getting funky. Meta and Google first questioned the validity of the term addiction, because addiction in the legal and/or medical sense would indicate a medical or life threatening emergency.
Additionally, Meta and Google assert they're shielded from liability because of some old ass laws about stuff, blah blah blah, and they have no control over what people post. Hence, her addiction to Instagram is not a real addiction and it is her own fault because she chooses to view the content. No one forced her to view the content and she knowingly violated Meta ToS when she made an Instagram account (or her parents allowed her, whatever).
The people suing cite statistics that over 4,000,000 users on Meta platforms are under the age of 13. Meta (or Zuckerberg, rather) retorted that it is virtually impossible to accurately determine someone's age online.
Mark Zuckerberg has proposed some sort of digital national ID in the United States which is handled at the Operating System level. This shifts liability away from 3rd party platforms. Mark Zuckerberg's proposal coincides with the United States KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) which (in extreme summary) would place age verification stuff at the Operating System level.
While KOSA was successfully introduced to the United States Congress, it is currently under evaluation by a bunch of different committees. If the committees agree this bill sounds good, it will then proceed to the House and Senate for approval. Of course, there is no guarantee it would pass. Furthermore, the bill has been in limbo for almost one year.
Anyway, basically Zuckerberg is endorsing KOSA because it shifts liability away from Meta and onto Operating System vendors. Zuckerberg did not state how he believes KOSA could be implemented on Linux (it's literally impossible).
I made that post about that Xbox CEO lady intentionally inflammatory. I knew gamers would go schizo and start screaming at their computer monitors.
It made me giggle. I said, "hehe gamers are gonna be so rustled".
I subsequently went to nappy noo noo city (my favorite city)
I woke up this morning to an absolute slobberknocker in the comment section. New conspiracy theories have surfaced that I have been larping as an American for 6.5 years, and am actually a man located in India.
Others have speculated I am actually a homosexual, "a simp", and some other mean stuff.
It's all very silly shenanigans.
I have no idea who this woman is, I don't give a fuck about Xbox, or gaming, or that she is doing to "put AI in gaming", but gamers (for reasons I don't understand) get extremely upset about culture war stuff. This is a good 3 cat pictures out of 3 cat pictures.
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I've never gotten this sick until my son was born and we started spending more time around other family members and their children.
WHY ARE THEY SO DISGUSTING? WHY DO THEY MAKE DISEASE? This kid ran up, said "Uncle Smelly, can I have a hug?". I said, "Haha, of course kiddo".
HE COUGHS IN MY FUCKING FACE. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT? IS HE INSANE
/me flips desk
You can read more about it in the link below. As is tradition, this is a proposed bill and is not officially law. It is just a proposal. There is no guarantee it would pass into law.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202602/colorado-moves-age-checks-from-websites-to-operating-systems
You don't need to visit a Doctor. Visit M.D. Smelly Smellington's AI healthcare facility (The M.D. stands for Madeup Doctor).
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It suddenly stopped. Now it sounds like a bunch of fish gurgling under water.
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I make them smaller "blocks" because last time I bundled them all together it was over 162GB and several thousand people tried it download it at once.
It resulted in 100TB of data attempting to be pulled and our infrastructure imploded.
tl;dr ddos via cats
This probably makes me sound like a sociopath, or something, but I very seriously don't talk about vx-underground or anything I do online with people IRL.
Nobody would understand it, I don't feel like explaining it, and truthfully I don't feel like discussing it. I don't need to bond with people over dumb computer nerd stuff.
Online I am "smelly smellington", I collect malware, development malware, reverse engineer malware, and do silly things which are playfully unethical.
IRL I'm a Father, a son, an Uncle, I go to family birthday parties, go do stuff like trick-or-treating, Christmas stuff, family cook-outs, sometimes go to church (I'm not religious, but whatever), etc. I like to watch UFC, weird cartoons on YouTube like MeatCanyon, and enjoy stuff like watching Netflix with my family
smelly smellington != IRL me
tl;dr just be a normal person, nerd
If you're curious, look up: Intravenous Milk Experiments
It turns out many people just as dumb as me had this idea.
It will also unveil in 2024 when a nurse in Egypt accidentally administered baby formula in a babies IV bag instead of saline. It was such a medical disaster it was documented and studied.
Thankfully, medical experts freaked the fuck out and it was all hands on deck. The baby survived, made a full recovery, is doing great now. It isn't reported what happened to the nurse, but I assume they beat her to death in the parking lot for making such a fucking stupid mistake.
I'm really sick now, extremely congested. I unironically was like, "why can't we just pull the goop out of our lungs?"
Then I read about lungs and I realized they're really fucking complicated.
Anyway, cement mix should do the trick, it'll be fine
Anthropic stealing a bunch of data to train their AI model just to see a bunch of places steal the data they stole to train their AI model
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I don't want to sound like a schizo, but it's really weird that seemingly out of nowhere different parts of the United States are pushing aggressively to do age verification. It's also weird how some have pushed for it at the OS level (including Zuckerberg).
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I wanted to share the post, but I couldn't quote post it fully. I'm also sick and couldn't think of a witty comment, so I just screencapped it and used MS-PAINT to overlay it on a picture of a silly kitty cat.
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The idea behind KOSA is that vendors need to add safeguards to protect children from sexual predators online and cyber bullies. KOSA states vendors must provide parental controls to protect children. Furthermore, vendors must disclose (at a high level) how their age verification works.
In fairness, KOSA never explicitly states OS vendors must perform this, KOSA applies specifically to online social media platforms. However, as is tradition, KOSA does not provide any framework on how accomplish this task and places it on "vendors" (ambiguous)
My favorite comments were those who wrote "you're brown" and informed me they'd be unfollowing me and/or blocking me.
I couldn't believe it.
I thought to myself, "that random person on the internet, who I have never met, seen, interacted with, or even knew existed, has expressed dissatisfaction with my post to such an extent they had to inform me of their departure".
Consequences have never been the same.
Meanwhile on the internet (a very real and serious place), Amazon is beefing with the Financial Times. The Financial Times did a report that an AWS outage was caused by an AI programming tool (see image one).
As expected, nerds on the internet went schizo, proclaiming the end of the world. However, Amazon has made a rebuttal.
Amazon did a write-up today explaining the outage Financial Time's discussed was not related to AI, and had minimal impact.
Furthermore, Amazon writes the error was the result of misconfigured access controls, it was not related to AI or AI "deleting and recreating an environment" (image two).
Is Amazon telling the truth? What does "deleting and recreating an environment" actually mean? FT sources were "four people familiar with the matter", were they familiar? Why does Amazon need AI coding stuff for server stuff?
Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z
Meanwhile on Xitter, games are extremely mad about this new Xbox CEO being a woman and also being Indian. I know absolutely nothing about her, but I decided to make a post praising her for her success. As expected, gamers are MAD. Conspiracy theories are floating around that I am actually an Indian living in INDIA. Some have speculated I am a SIMP and Microsoft CUCK.
I am sick, but enjoying reading comments from GAMERS about this DEI INDIAN WOMAN and how she is RUINING GAMING
tldr bored, sick, made silly post, gamers mad.
https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2025416657024266362
>be me
>have influenza type a, like 3 weeks ago
>recover
>omg thank god
>fast forward
>visit family
>they have a bunch of kids
>running around
>coughing
>smearing boogers everywhere
>haha im immune
>fast forward to thursdays
>cough
>hehe throat tickles
>saturday
>coughing up mystery goop
>ears popping (???)
>fatigue
>body aches
I'm gonna say something no one has the balls to say. We need to BAN children. Children need to be CRIMINALIZED. They're disgusting creatures and create plagues (except my son, he's perfect in every way imaginable)
United States Colorado Sen. Matt Ball and Rep. Amy Paschal have authored bill SB26-051.
SB26-051 would require Operating System, such as Windows or Linux, to perform age verification on users which then third party apps can leverage via API to ensure someone's age.
"Because of Claude, a practicing physician was able to vibe code an app to work with his patients. With AI, anyone can be a software engineer!"
Correct. Likewise, anyone can be a Doctor now. Claude, diagnosis my patient, make no mistakes.
My computer hard drive sounds like a bunch of loose change bouncing around inside a dryer.
No idea what that means
Hello,
I've receive your messages loud and clear. You want more cat pictures. I have 12 "cat blocks" on VXUG already. Each "cat block" is 2,000 pictures. I'll add like, 37 more blocks.
I will work on uploading tonight
https://vx-underground.org/Archive
I've seen nerds say, "how does the malware guy who doesnt go outside have a family and i dont?"
Well, it's very shrimple.
1. I don't talk about what I do, ever. They don't understand malware and if I tried to explain it they'd be scared.
2. I don't tell anyone what I do on the internet, ever. If I told people I unironically talk to cyber terrorists and send the FBI pictures of cats they'd be scared.
3. I don't talk about computers or anything technology adjacent, ever. Computers are for nerds and normal people don't understand it. If I explained anything they'd be scared.
4. I dress normal. I wear generic middle class jeans from generic middle class stores. I wear generic shoes like Nikes. I don't wear cybersecurity shirts. All my shirts are cheap $8 shirts that are blank with no logo on it.
Basically, be a normal person. Talk about dumb shit, like the weather or food, or something. Ask people about themselves (they love talking about themselves). You have to segregate internet person from IRL person.
tl;dr malware is illegal and for nerds