Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

  1. They did offer online therapy too.
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  2. When are we going to get impersonal computers?
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  3. I think he's mostly just violating trademarks, not copyright.
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  4. I'm pretty sure most developed countries have some kind of equivalent.
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  5.  @terrycrews1584  I think it should be standard procedure to still change the password to make mistakes like this less likely.
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  6. There were two cables damaged back then, one (EE-S1) between Sweden and Estonia and another (FEC) between Finland and Estonia.
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  7. 0:45 I'm pretty sure it's not an established fact. Zoonosis seems a more likely explanation than a lab accident.
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  8.  @233kosta  AFAIK, tarballs do have metadata in the beginning but that's a feature of the tar file format, not the magnetic tape drives they were originally intended for which I think are only capable of serial I/O.
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  9. Oil pipelines? Which oil pipeline has been blown up?
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  10.  @TheJT00001  I think it's more likely that you're just confusing oil pipelines and gas pipelines. Or can you name an oil pipeline that has been blown up?
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  11. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the Chinese government. It may e.g. be that Russia has effectively leased this ship from a private Chinese company to do this.
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  12. Quantum computing isn't yet far enough to do that in any case (not in Finland nor elsewhere).
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  13. Also, in the earlier cases he had openly bragged about his crimes. I guess one reason he could do that was because back then he was underage.
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  14.  @JuusoAlasuutari  "he extorted people in a vulnerable position, not the company" He tried extorting the company first. He shifted to extorting the individual people because the company didn't accept his demands.
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  15.  @desmondberry528  Surely they didn't make a calculated decision to leave the root password as "root" (which I think was what happened). More likely it was just sloppiness. If there was a money saving decision at some point involved it was more likely something along the lines of not implementing procedures to check for common vulnerabilities etc., not specifically about choosing to not change an individual password.
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  16. If you're using a bank the transaction doesn't get broadcast to the whole world.
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  17.  @belstar1128  The prosecution is demanding the maximum penalty of 7 years. IANAL, but I think that's a likely outcome.
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  18. As a minor nitpick, copyright and trademarks are a different thing. I think most (possibly all) IP violations here are trademark violations, not copyright infringement.
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  19. He did disappear for 6 days before being caught again.
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  20. Cash has serial numbers, it can be found physically in your possession, etc. Also, I'm not sure how you would ask your extortion victims to deliver the cash to you in a case like this without revealing yourself.
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  21.  @GNUr000t  What do you mean "left the country"? He disappeared for 6 days before being caught again. What's your basis for claiming that he was out of the country?
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  22. Just calling someone "stupid" or "not stupid". Misses a lot of nuance. There are a lot of people who are bright in the sense of being very creative but also foolish in the sense of taking excessive risks. However, in this particular case the hack wasn't that difficult. In the hacked system the root user's password was apparently "root".
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  23.  @interbard  In the past this kind of ID number was actually called "sosiaaliturvatunnus" which literally translated means "social security identifier". However, in Finnish "social security" (sosiaaliturva) refers to the government provided social safety net in general. In the US "Social Security" (with upper case letters) is the name of just a particular part of the social safety net in the US, basically a type of government provided pension, rather than the whole system. At some point the ID was renamed to "henkilötunnus" meaning "personal identifier".
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  24. Dogecoin is better.
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  25. Plenty of people cared about Nord Stream.
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  26.  @darthtrucker489  I saw plenty of people talking about it. It's clearly false to say that "nobody cared".
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  27. Maybe he should add fake ads to the menu.
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  28. The prosecution is looking for a 7 year sentence.
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  29. It was just a joke in any case. Also, Finland doesn't have the same kind of census as the US anymore. You can just query the population information system at any time and get a far more accurate answer.
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  30. It was only tarred, not compressed, so it shouldn't take that long.
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  31. Note that the power company has in any case to ability to cut off all of your electricity and not just your AC. Maybe strain on the electric grid necessitating rolling blackouts is rare but it can happen. These kinds of deals can at least in principle help the grid operator such that blackouts might not be needed when they otherwise would have.
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  32. I think you can get proper tech support for e.g. Ubuntu if you actually pay Canonical for it. Same might be true for some other distros.
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  33. Maybe he ran something like "tar -cf vastaamo.tar *" in the wrong directory.
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  34. It's not overhead. It's because magnetic tape and such didn't have a filesystem at all so you could only write sequential data.
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  35. Strictly speaking he only tarred it. He didn't compress it.
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  36. This might not have anything to do with the Chinese government. It might e.g. be that Russia has effectively leased a ship from a private Chinese company for the purpose of sabotage.
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  37. "A hypocrite" How so? How would this video make Mental Outlaw a hypocrite?
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  38.  @justskip4595  "fighting espionage" No, that's the domain of Supo, not KRP.
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  39. And it's not even "the Feds".
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  40. This particular hack wasn't that difficult because the system had "root" as the password for the root user.
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  41.  @SongOfDeer  Well, he isn't unskilled at hacking. He has done more demanding stuff earlier.
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  42.  @Xiy114  The CEO only received a suspended sentence so he isn't actually going to prison.
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  43. Maybe he ran something like "tar -cf vastaamo.tar *" in the wrong directory.
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  44. You have to consider two things. Firstly, if you find the suspect through such an attack, that may open to possibility of obtaining other evidence through e.g. spying on the suspect. Secondly, no single piece of evidence needs to prove the crime beyond reasonable doubt. It's enough that the body of evidence as a whole does that and each piece of evidence can contribute to that even if they're not individually strong enough.
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  45. Why least based?
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  46. Maybe he ran something like "tar -cf vastaamo.tar *" in the wrong directory.
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