hacker:HUNTER - Wannacry: The Marcus Hutchins Story - All 3 Chapters
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Published 2019-10-25
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All Comments (21)
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Media should be banned from publishing someone's address.
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the idea that dude just registered a domain and accidentally disabled this attack kinda glosses over that marcus had been a very talented and busy counter-malware researcher already by that point.
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3:52
Director: "Make it look as hacky as possible"
Guy behind computer, runs 100 instances of "tree" and "htop" and a 2nd screen with a world map..... -
Write code that enables stealing of banking info, you're looking at 10 years in prison.
Actually stealing money as a Wells Fargo executive, not even a slap on the wrist. -
When you know more than the FBI, you are a menace to them, even if you are a hero.
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FBI: couldn't catch the wannacry bandit, nah what the hell lets arrest the one who save the world from wannacry malware......
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"It's only when you get older that you really learn what's right and wrong" Priceless.
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Hacker community really stands behind their own! It’s amazing.
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This was an excellent documentary. I'm glad there's some good judges out there
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Long story short, government thought they could screw him cuz he's poor but they didn't expect people online donating to his cause so he can defend himself in court
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As the saying goes, “No good deed goes unpunished.”
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$1-1.2 million dollars just to defend yourself. That's the real crime.
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"In outdated versions of windows.." You mean in versions of Windows that didn't have the patch the NSA told Microsoft to patch to cover the Vault 7 leaks.
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The real crime was this guys beard 1:42
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Excellent presentation of the story, the overview of how important white hats are for future security, and in a nice digestible piece.
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Why tf did they use a super fake matrix screen when they could just show him actually making something?
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"All the computers have been stopped" - LOL classic line from that generation.
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It seems that society hardly allows stories of redemption anymore but this just so happens to be that rare exception. I hope one day his story will be turned into a movie, one the likes of 'the social network'
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The rare occasion when true justice actually prevails in America
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His mistakes were simply "in the making of a HERO