You didn't have anything to contribute to HTP5, and you also didn't have root at Linode. My contention is that hacking groups were killed because of informants, such as the one we mentioned at the end of the Linode section. Thoughts?
I never said I got root at Linode, but I did have root at Linode.
FWIW I dumped all the MIT, nmap and Sucuri data in HTP5 and popped the shells on swiftircd boxes (who IIRC ended up being the first ones to alert linode to our presence). It’s not any kind of an achievement, but hard to claim I wasn’t deeply involved.
As far as I know none of the stuff about informants in the Linode section was true. I don’t think anyone got hacked and had their handler standing behind them, at least I never heard more of that story. Ryan King and Rory Guidry continued their involvement with HTP long after the Linode stuff.
Did informants kill hacker groups? I don’t think so. FBI infiltration of hacker groups predates the death of hacker groups by well over a decade, it never stopped anyone.
Also if you didn't care about money, what do you call "Lizard Stresser"? Or a short trip through your comment history: "There’s me, a frequent traveller who uses UberLUX 4+ times a day, spending more than 5000GBP/mo.".
>Also if you didn't care about money
I’ve never pretended to not care about money. Those who claimed to not care were either just children or unable to answer “how?”.
Take XiX for example, someone who always claimed to not give a fuck about money seems to be working on his second(?) startup now. In the end, everyone cares about money.