Marcus Hutchins :verified:

If you're wondering what it is I do, don't worry, so am I.

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2024-08-14 23:40:38

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Why does my start menu need github to run lol

2024-08-14 23:21:31

what the hell is this lmao
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2024-08-14 04:52:44

Elon’s Twitter Space in a nutshell
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2024-08-13 06:36:46

My biggest take away from defcon is that I need a job. After I quit my last gig I was toying with the idea of just cutting my expenses and semi-retiring, but after attempting to do defcon on a budget I realized budget vacations suck and consciously choosing to have less money is actually insane.

2024-08-12 15:24:11

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It’s super wild because defcon gave Resorts World loads of business by offering room blocks at their hotel. Then a day before the cons start the hotel issues and announcement that they’re going to be doing constant room checks looking for “hacking”, then spent the entire week harassing guests by entering their rooms unannounced and confiscating random electronics.

2024-08-12 11:41:06

Room service just gave me the most confusing cappuccino ever. It’s a cup of milk foam + a pot of coffee, but the coffee pot is completely full to the top. Either they cheated and used American coffee, in which case I can safely drink the whole thing, but if it’s actually Italian coffee, there’s probably like 8 shots of espresso in there and I’m gonna die
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2024-08-07 21:27:25

New record for how quickly I got recognized attending defcon. Upon entering the airport to board my flight to Las Vegas 😆

2024-08-06 00:16:12

I'm kinda hoping this will be a wake up call for regulators in the UK and EU. Everyone just watched as Twitter (primarily accounts Elon personally intervened to unban) caused widespread race riots in the UK. It's simply not sustainable to let a bunch of Americans with bad ideals about free speech burn down the rest of western society.
At the end of the day, all these platforms care about is money. US law may prevents their home government from forcing them to stop platforming racists, but it doesn't stop every other government from going after them.

2024-08-05 21:38:40

I suspect exactly the same thing that happened in the US is now happening in the UK. Entire political spectrum took a hard right turn, the extreme right wing became increasingly emboldened and a lot of awful ideologies became normalized, then when the pendulum swung back left, everything just continued to get worse because the fear of losing power just increased radicalization on the right, as well as their willingness to resort to violence and intimidation.

2024-08-05 21:20:42

The whole "if you don't like it just move" argument kinda falls apart when you do actually have the resources and motivation to do that but every country keeps falling apart faster than you can acquire new residencies

2024-08-05 21:15:47

All it took was 1 fake news article for people in the UK to start setting up race checkpoints 🥴
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2024-08-05 19:34:48

I overslept and missed the last JSX flight, so now I have to deal with the nightmare that is commercial flights between LA and Vegas. The flight itself is only an hour, but between traffic, bag drop, TSA, boarding, deplaning, baggage collection, and the LAS uber pickup, the whole process takes like 4+ hours.

2024-08-05 19:05:02

Somehow my McDonald’s order got messed up and defaulted to a Big Mac with no Big or Mac
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2024-08-03 21:53:41

It's wild that the UK has been having race riots for days now because some teenager stabbed a bunch of kids and then someone (presumably a bot) went on Twitter and claimed it was a radical Muslim who arrived in the UK by refugee boat (none of that was true).

2024-08-02 21:55:56

New cybersecurity challenge: we go a whole months without giving a threat actor a name that sounds like a euphemism for jizz

2024-08-02 21:00:48

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@npub17lg…9uux Rookie mistake, they have to dedicate at least half of the site to racism and harassing minorities, then the Cloudflare CEO will post Op-Eds on the company blog defending them instead of taking them down

2024-08-01 21:42:49

Windows versioning gives me migraines. I just installed Windows 11 and after they went back on their commitment to make Windows 10 the last Windows version, they decided to stay committed with regards to version numbers. So Windows 10 is 10.0.10 - 10.0.19 and Windows 11 is 10.0.22. It's also not clear if Windows 11 is the last OS, or if at 10.0.23 or 10.0.30 it's going to become another OS.

2024-08-01 19:18:02

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@npub17lg…9uux they really don't want you getting that $5 haha

2024-08-01 17:51:21

It's amusing when people learn stock terms like "buy the dip" and just apply it to any time a company stock goes down. Brother, you're not buying the dip on crowdstrike, you're investing into a company with a 500x P/E ratio that's probably about to spend the rest of the year getting sued.

2024-07-31 21:58:56

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@npub17lg…9uux Yeah, fair. I looked at their pay scale a while back and anything below principal engineer doesn't seem at all worth it for the hassle of having to deal with big enterprise politics.

2024-07-31 21:46:29

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@npub17lg…9uux You should have lol. The salaries are so much better and if you move somewhere like LA, SF, or even Seattle you miss most of the US political insanity

2024-07-31 21:36:18

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@npub17lg…9uux That's a hell of a good quote. And yeah, I almost took an offer from MS the same time you did, but it would have meant moving back to the UK which was no bueno.

2024-07-31 21:13:27

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@npub17lg…9uux lmao, reminds me of the time a company I'd been bashing online paid me to speak at their conference and I was super confused when I went and they gave me money and nobody stabbed me or stole my kidneys

2024-07-31 21:06:33

I just got the email to apply for an invite to Microsoft's private party at BlackHat. Somehow I don't think I'm getting in this year, but we'll see 😆

2024-07-31 00:08:53

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I've always found it weird the way in which a lot of reporting on US political issues normalizes completely unhinged and unfounded political beliefs by just verbatim quoting shit some lunatic said without making any attempt to address how insane it is or why it's wrong.

2024-07-30 04:42:07

I think in hindsight I regret not job hopping more early in my career. I was always cautious of the fact that you don’t know how good or bad a job will be until you already start working there. So my logic was if I’m happy with my current job, why quit for a shot at a slightly better one? Which wasn’t helped by that fact that a friend and I both got job offers from a company I’ve wanted to work at my whole life. I turned it down because anxiety, he joined and ended up quitting the second he could because it turned out to be a bureaucratic nightmare 😆

2024-07-28 23:58:47

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@npub17lg…9uux If I venmo you $5 will you fully delete your twitter

2024-07-27 02:21:26

5 years ago today a group of wonderful people, support from the infosec community, and a kind judge saved me from going to prison for hacking. Feels like forever ago, but I still appreciate every one of you ❤️
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2024-07-26 23:09:44

I got trolled by US supplement marketing again. 500 mg magnesium glycinate tablets aren't 500 mg of magnesium, they're 430 mg of glycinate and 70mg of magnesium.

2024-07-25 22:37:31

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2024-07-25 21:06:00

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@npub17lg…9uux Yeah that's totally fair. Though I think had Microsoft made these capabilities available from user mode earlier on, there wouldn't be suc ha strong incentive to do all this insane stuff from Kernel mode

2024-07-25 20:59:24

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@npub17lg…9uux fair enough

2024-07-25 20:34:56

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@npub17lg…9uux Personally I just wanna know what Crowdstrike did to you to make you want to defend Microsoft 😆

2024-07-25 18:30:49

I really don't think Microsoft gets enough hate for not giving security providers the tools necessary to implement EDR capabilities outside of kernel mode. If one company is messing around in your kernel, their software architecture is flawed. If every company is messing around in your kernel, your software architecture is flawed.
Nobody just wakes up one day and goes "you know what would be fun? Maintaining a stable and reliable driver for 500 different versions of the Windows Kernel".

2024-07-25 18:19:01

@npub1a5z…hcww @npub17lg…9uux How much is Elon paying you to recruit lol

2024-07-25 17:30:35

Latest Newsletter: Crowdstrike Crash 8.5 Million Systems, APTs Turn Off Ukraine's Heating, North Koreans Are Seeking Remote US Tech Jobs, and more
https://malwaretech.com/newsletter/archive/2024-07-23.html

2024-07-25 01:03:25

Dude couldn't even make self driving cars work and thinks he's going to do humanoid robots and AI
Might as well just sell memes at this point and fully embrace being a meme stock
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2024-07-24 01:36:11

I kind of want to make a blog post debunking Microsoft's claim that the EU preventing them locking down the kernel is what was responsible for the Crowdstrike outage.
Obviously Microsoft's attempt wasn't in good faith because the APIs that they offer today are still inferior to the kernel mode ones for EDR, but does anyone happen to have a list of the replacement APIs they offered at the time (i.e. back in 2009 when AV companies sued them for trying to lock out their products)?

2024-07-23 21:43:59

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Microsoft has all the tools, they have probably the biggest threat intelligence and software telemetry database on earth, some of the best security people in the world, but the bureaucracy and obsession with endlessly supporting legacy systems/code makes them unfit to run a closed ecosystem like Apple does (and I say this as an avid Microsoft user and fan, and someone who think Apple needs to get slapped around by the EU too).

2024-07-23 20:29:16

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mhmmm, yessss, Crowdstrike crash because EU didn't let Microsoft kill all their competitors and become an outright monopoly in the security space, I am very smrt

2024-07-23 20:27:10

There's so many goobers falling for Microsoft's claim that EU regulations were responsible for the Crowdstrike crash. It's extremely obviously a political play to try and undermine EU's anti-trust case against them, but people are eating it up like they don't have two brain cells to rub together.

2024-07-23 20:10:48

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@npub17lg…9uux it's a data file that triggered a BSOD due to the driver trying to parse invalid data. The only question that isn't answered is if the update files are digitally signed, which it would be insane not to.

2024-07-23 19:46:56

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@npub178r…qekt I think we spent about 30 minutes in the actual conference the first year then decided to rent a bunch of supercars and go touring the city.

2024-07-23 19:42:24

Defcon is such a weird feeling for me, it's like two separate major life events. My first Defcon was the first time I ever booked a vacation with my own money, so I got to go from sharing budget accommodation with my family, to staying in 5 star hotels. Then my second defcon was when I went from living with my parents to being fully independent, thanks to getting arrested and forced to live in the US indefinitely.

2024-07-22 21:13:29

These videos get me every time
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2024-07-21 23:59:51

My neighbor's dog broke into my house. I think the dog distribution system needs some bugfixes because this is the 9th dog its offered me this year

2024-07-21 19:51:29

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@npub17lg…9uux I've been enjoying the smooth brained Linux fanboy takes on how "Linux doesn't crash" from people who have no idea how drivers work

2024-07-21 18:33:24

The Democrat party has to be hands down one of the most useless political parties in history. The republicans have built a comprehensive 4 year plan to dismantle democracy, meanwhile it's 6 months into the election year and the democrat party is still busy eating glue.

2024-07-20 23:36:13

It's crazy how much societal harm Elon has done in the space of a few years. I can count on 1 hand the number of racist posts of that level I've seen on other platforms. On Twitter, it's constant. All day, every day, everywhere you look. Any time there's a catastrophe, he and his brain trust of alt-right dipshits get together to come up with a reason why hiring non-white people is to blame. He's actively poisoned people's minds to the point where they've become completely untethered from reality. All they have left is hate.

2024-07-20 22:44:50

Man, I wish Taviso was still active here. He made a great thread over on Twitter toasting some dude who claimed "I'm qualified to speak on this because I'm a C++ engineer", made a thread doing the most atrocious job of analyzing the Crowdstrike driver crash dump, then when it went viral he updated it to shoehorn some DEI dogwhistling in.

2024-07-20 22:16:20

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@npub1xr8…3q0g Oh nah, it still keeps me up all night. Just the therapeutic effects last like 2h, and then the other 12 is just insomnia

2024-07-20 22:08:52

I asked my doctor to switch me to dextroamphetamine from Vyvanse because my metabolism is so fast that most extended-release drugs just don't work on me. But then I stupidly forgot to look up what the dosage equivalent is, so just took the same amount of dextroamphetamine as I would Vyvanse.
Turns out Dextroamphetamine is 3x stronger than Vyvanse, so instead of motivation to do laundry, I got a 4 hour free trial of what it's like to do meth. 🙃

2024-07-19 19:41:33

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@npub19ln…4rwe How easy is it to get stuff off the SSD? My current setup records directly to a NAS, so all footage is immediately available over LAN

2024-07-19 00:37:02

LinkedIn is actually pretty fun if you just use it like Twitter. Take nothing seriously, post dumb shit, then if anyone gets mad at you, block them

2024-07-17 03:49:46

These past few months have been an absolute trip. My long term plan has always been to do my own thing eventually, just not for at least 3-5 years. But then my day job somehow went from dream job to nightmare almost overnight, so I ended up quitting with no plan. Now I'm trying to start a business with literally no idea what I'm doing and no fallback option 😆

2024-07-17 00:50:21

The whole SpaceX/Twitter moving to Texas is just to score cheap political points. Nobody who lives in SF or LA is moving to Texas for any amount of money. I bet it basically amounts to "this office is our special office now" and no actual procedural changes to the company. I doubt it even has any tax implications because taxes aren't based on where you say your headquarters is.

2024-07-16 04:14:06

The past few days on LinkedIn has been me realizing how many of the executives I connected with are diehard MAGA supporters, then having to decide if I care more about my sanity or the opportunity cost of removing them as contacts.

2024-07-15 04:28:16

My LinkedIn feed is truly top tier right now. People just straight up posting lunatic conspiracy theories to their entire professional network based on a Twitter post from a redpill influencers screenshotting a 4chan user who claims to be a secret service sniper
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2024-07-14 15:42:44

What they don't tell you about living by the water in LA is you are going to actually lose your mind when May Gray, June Gloom, and whatever tf they call July results in you not seeing the sun for 3 months solid.

2024-07-13 17:54:27

The way my ISP has set up their infrastructure, you have to use their managed switch as an edge router. So, I have a several thousand dollar 10 GBit network being carried by some $70 piece of shit switch my ISP probably found on eBay 😆

2024-07-12 05:16:19

I feel dumb having made it to season 3 of iZombie before it clicked that the private military contractor is named Fillmore-Graves

2024-07-10 18:35:05

I gave my Husky a bowl of ice water to keep cool and now she is just sliding the ice cubes around all over the floor. idk what I expected 😆

2024-07-09 23:59:14

"X suspended the accounts for terms of service violations, the DOJ said. It's not clear how many people followed the fake accounts or interacted with their posts. X didn't respond to a request for comment."
It's amusing to watch Mr "free speech platform" just doing all the same things he criticized old Twitter for doing after very slowly and very painfully learning why everything is the way that it is
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/09/g-s1-9010/russia-bot-farm-ai-disinformation

2024-07-08 20:14:17

I like how my options are basically take adderall and not reply to any emails because I'm feeling productive but antisocial, or not take adderall and not reply to any emails because I'm feeling social but unproductive

2024-07-06 21:51:27

Bruh, how am I still getting sunburn wearing SPF 70. Wtf are these genetics. My ancestors didn't endure hundreds of years of slavery for me to be instantly vaporize when exposed to sunlight

2024-07-05 17:57:14

UK media is cooking 😆
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2024-07-05 05:26:16

lol, and I can’t state this enough, lmao
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2024-07-03 22:09:25

4th of July is always a weird time because I’m not really sure what side I’m supposed to be on

2024-07-03 09:01:54

Pro Tip: If a website uses a customer support chatbot that makes it impossible talk reach a real person, you can typically bypass the chatbot and get in touch with a company representative via your credit card’s chargeback system

2024-07-02 21:27:54

On no, the Tankie brainrot side of TikTok found my video about WannaCry. They're very upset because the great democratic nation of North Korea would never do such a thing and anyone saying otherwise is obviously a CIA plant

2024-07-02 00:23:49

These LinkedIn tech bro takes about how the EU would have a strong tech market if they stopped regulating everything are so obnoxious. Not only are the aggressively wrong and show a complete lack of understanding of economics, but they're super on the nose at a time when we're all watching in horror as the supreme court continues to put everyone in immense danger by gutting regulations and human rights.
It's giving "yeah, slavery is bad and all, but would someone please think of the economy".

2024-06-25 22:55:22

I feel kinda bad for my accountant because I'm completely brainless when it comes to tax stuff and he has to just figure it all out for me. I thought I just pay taxes on the money I make but there's like 50 different tax rates that depend on how specifically I made that money, and I don't keep track of how I made money, I don't even know how much money I make.

2024-06-23 21:52:24

Algorithm's a little confused but has spirit
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2024-06-23 19:41:58

ADHD is pretty expensive. I just remembered I forgot to invoice someone for some work I did, so searched "invoice" in my email inbox and found over $15,000 worth of invoices I never collected on 🥴

2024-06-08 21:29:29

Someone just reminded me of the part of the pandemic where people were sticking keys to their foreheads and convincing themselves the vaccine made them magnetic. Feels like forever ago now

2024-04-30 16:38:51

I feel semi bad for instantly blocking everyone who replies telling me they followed me for tech and that I need to post more of that, but it's really really obnoxious. This is my personal account, I talk about what I want to talk about. If I have interesting tech stuff I want to talk about, I'll talk about interesting tech stuff. I don't make a single dollar from this platform, so what you're basically saying is that you expect me to spend days researching and creating content tailored to your personal taste, entirely for free.

2024-03-01 00:20:02

An underrated perk of working in big tech: the office bus. Programmers yearn for the office bus.
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2024-01-12 14:46:55

Real freedom is saving 4% on my taxes by living in in a country with no healthcare, child support, or functional education system, then paying like 50% of my post-tax income if I happen to want any of those things
Europeans simply cannot comprehend this level of freedom

2024-01-05 20:08:00

My favorite thing about tech is every few years there's some new overhyped technology that results in a bunch of people picking $thing and founding a company that does $thing with $technology, without any understanding of either, or a single clue what problem they're trying to solve.
They'll literally be like "we're disrupting the dog food industry with ChatGPT" and their product will be like a $99/month subscription service for a LLM that reminds you to remind your dog.

2023-10-05 22:39:42

I lived in LA during the first E-Scooter pilot program. Woke up one day and there was just these electric scooters everywhere. You unlock them with an app and can ride them anywhere you want to go. Once you're done, you just leave it wherever. Then someone else can come and take it to wherever they want to go. If you take one home and charge it, you get paid some money.
It solved so many problems. You didn't have to find parking, it was often times faster to travel by bicycle like vehicles due to traffic, you didn't have to worry about getting your vehicle back home if you got drunk, nor worry about having to lock every part of your bike to every other part to stop thieves disassembling it.
Ultimately, it wasn't a good business due to a multitude of reasons. The difference between ride cost and cost of production meant scooters had to do hundreds of hours of rides before people totaled them or threw them in the sea or they couldn't break even. People were force to ride on sidewalks and mow down pedestrians because there's no bike lanes. Residents petitioned and had them banned due to people leaving them blocking driveways or littered across the sidewalk. Literally every single one of those problems would be easily solvable if it were a public service instead of a private business. Some regulation, enforcement, bike lanes, and what you have is an incredible inner-city public transport system.

2023-09-18 21:42:51

Turning Twitter into techno-feudalism would be the absolute funniest shit imaginable and I'm totally here for it. They really just went from "we need to abolish the lords and peasants blue check system" to "what if we made people pay for virtual real estate in order to have opinions"
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2023-09-15 21:48:13

I often half-joke that moving from Western Europe to the US is the national equivalent of defense contractors opting to deploy to an active warzone because the hazard pay is good.
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2023-08-18 20:45:36

Can someone explain employee stock options to me? I recently encountered them for the first time, and my understanding is they're not equity. It's basically just a contract that says "you can buy some of our stock if you want". So the part I'm confused about is, why do I need stock options to buy the stock? Since startups are private and their only way to raise money is via outside investment, wouldn't they want people to buy their stock? Why do you need the options and can't just say, phone up and ask to buy shares?

2023-08-01 02:08:47

People keep contacting me and asking when I'm gonna return to Twitter and I can't tell if they're trolling or just completely oblivious. I feel like I've been pretty clear that I think Twitter/X is a Nazi bar and I don't need attention badly enough that I'm gonna become a regular and help keep it afloat.

2023-04-05 12:32:05

When ever I criticize Elongated Muskrat the best his fans can come up with is “so you hate free speech?” Which is hilarious because firstly, speech is exponentially less free post Phony Stark. And secondly, yes, I do actually. The American idea of free speech is the most logically incoherent concept I’ve ever come across. “We must let people openly be Nazis because if we limit free speech in any way (other than libel, slander, copyright violation, sedition, NDAs, obscenity, threats, fraud, TikTok, violating classification, or protesting in places we don’t like) then it’s a slippery slope towards Fascism (or communism as we like to call it because the right in far-right extremism stands for constitutional right).