Or maybe snake oil is the wrong term. I don’t know if there’s a term for someone who warns others and they never listen, because it seems no matter how much you break into buildings and expose the flaws, hack a bank’s transaction, or infiltrate a database, the company will thank you, pay you a few hundred thousand dollars, then do nothing to change.

Essentially it just seems like I’m helping big companies bypass regulations by rubber stamping their pinky promises to change. I guess internal security auditing might be a little better, but I don’t know

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    👀

    Would be fun to be a 21st century young Stalin. After skimming the article I understand how international SWIFT payments could be falsified, but I still don't see how you could get the funds out of the target bank account securely.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Have not done it, but I've followed a couple of these through the years. A couple rules for success seem to be:

      • Bounce the money around as much as possible
      • Never personally touch the money; i.e. at no point should you personally try to profit from the stolen cash.
      • split up the cash as much as possible; donate it as cash to charities, buy large amount of stuff that can be donated, make large purchases from organizations you want to support.

      Basically, use the money to fund projects that make the world better around you. Don't buy a ferrari.