mikemarotti

257 karma · joined November 22, 2011

mikemarottion Facebook shares hit again as valuation doubts rise

The burden will continue to rest on the middle class until there is no more middle class.

mikemarottion Kodak's HQ secretly housed a nuclear reactor with weapons grade fuel

As someone on Reddit pointed out, this was not weapons-grade uranium (~80%+ enriched). This uranium was 3-5% enriched, and they only had a few pounds of it (you'd need at least ~55lbs for a small nuclear bomb).

mikemarottion IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA

The fact that this guy even posted an AMA shows that it's either entirely fake (doesn't seem it), or he's way too cocky. I suspect some trouble may be coming his way soon. He seems to think that he's infallible and that he won't catch a charge for running a botnet.

mikemarottion 55,000 Twitter passwords leaked

Any info on how exactly this was accomplished?

mikemarottion Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

Still not working for me, I will send you an email. Thank you for working on this tool though - our company would gladly pay for an enterprise version of this (especially if it was a bit more seamless and integrated with Google Apps somehow).

mikemarottion Today’s Stockholders’ Letter

Gotta love the "throw mud at the wall and hope some of it sticks" business model.

At least they threw enough mud before the IPO to cover up the writing on the wall.

mikemarottion [dead]

Did he build the site himself as well? Either way, good on him - these kind of services are a hit with the match.com / eHarmony crowd, even though attracting someone under false pretenses kind of defeats the purpose of online dating. But that certainly isn't your dad's problem!

mikemarottion Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

Granted this isn't working for me to begin with (http://i.imgur.com/yLzyy.png), but will this tool work to archive Google Apps email accounts? eg. Gmail accounts that do not end in gmail.com?

mikemarottion Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails

Still not working for me on OS X. I CDed my way into gmvault-v1.0-beta/bin, but when I ./gmvault sync mikemarotti@gmail.com, I get this:

http://i.imgur.com/yLzyy.png

mikemarottion Groupon Plunges as Board Members Reportedly Leaving

Is it too late to think about shorting this stock?

mikemarottion The PC is dead. Why no angry nerds?

People have been saying the PC is dead just about as long as I've been Personal Computing.

The role of the PC may be changing, but that is far from meaning that it's dead.

mikemarottion Why are entrepreneurs leaving the U.S.?

It seems to be a case of the latter. These entrepreneurs identified a gap in a foreign market and exploited it. It's mutually beneficial - benefits them because they are now a leader in their market, and it benefits us as there is now one less social-fucking-coupon website that we have to hear about.

mikemarottion Security researcher responds to CarrierIQ with video proof

Hope these guys have a contingency plan for when their massive DB gets compromised by some angry 15 year olds. Especially when said 15 year olds decide to dump a year's worth of plaintext keylog information.

What's most sad about this situation is that these guys were able to get this software on 150 million handsets and we're only finding out about this now.