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wealthyyyon 5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up

That's why he shipped all code inside one controller.

wealthyyyon The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability

> Why would you want Rust to target lowest-common-denominator developers and become new VB or php?

Rust wants not that I wants. It seems people replacing NodeJS with it.

wealthyyyon The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability

Linus wanted attention and C++ was perfect. Later down the road, he even ranted about Java. It's clear he is a hater of OOP and Abstraction in general. Now, Linus Cultists promotes Data Oriented Design.

The attention thing said by Bjarne by himself when asked on Reddit.

wealthyyyon The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability

Reminds me that unprofitable hotness electric car company whose core business is to manipulate both balance sheet and government.

wealthyyyon The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability

This guy wants to write an implant in Rust, but he forgets that Rust is like C, and its very easy RE.

Oh, I do remember we had cool kidz writing implants in Go, C#

What a failure! That's why the NSA and GRU selected Modern C++!

He selected the wrong tool for the job. Take a look at Flawedgrace, it is written in modern C ++ and very complex to RE. It uses OOP heavily.

Rust is a subset of modern C ++

The Rust people have mastered Alexander Stepanov's vision for C ++

Have a look at Alexander Stepanov's Elements of Programming.

This post just a hidden marketing for his "Blackhat" book.

C++ didn't make any mistakes. The language didn't but the developers did.

It's pity that people portray C++ as dead and horrible lang.

The ecosystem of programming languages has become more like the Ponzi Crypto industry, where every night you get shiny cryptocurrency and then charge for consultations and speaking.

wealthyyyon 5 years of leetcode with no progress. I'm giving up

The C++ example on leetcode front page is dead wrong. It use that "using namespace std" thingie.

wealthyyyon What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?

That's what I implied on my last sentence. Pattern-oriented tracking.

wealthyyyon A curated list of .NET performance resources

You pay cost for branch predictions at Runtime. You can avoid it at compile-time using Templates or even constexpr. .

wealthyyyon A curated list of .NET performance resources

Accenture used C# for a HFT shop but that shop went away from it to C++.

Java is not popular in HFT other than 2-3 shops using it.

C++ is best choice IMHO. It has become easy to use it and plus you can get compile time branch prediction with templates.

RAII also amazing. RAII looks like a GC but it's not but it's works like a GC ..

wealthyyyon What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?

Everyone was afraid that someone was watching them, but they are missing the fact that it's is difficult to watch everyone. Even with algorithms, I don't think it's possible.

Essentially, I believe the three letter agencies are pattern oriented when it comes to tracking.

wealthyyyon Clio: A functional, distributed programming language that compiles to JavaScript

I built my own language recently and called it Casi-no.

wealthyyyon I self-learned to code at 30

How come people forget Critical Thinking?

It's obvious Critical Thinking helps to learn programming.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

I don't give ....

Well what. It's obvious who you are. You are Lucky...

Account age is biased way to trust an individual. I could have bought an old HN account from someone but I didn't.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

No. I've tested it anyway.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Mr Flow, Please try a TMobile number on ZipWhip. You will see it fails. You will now claim that I am lying and that NetNumber has fixed this. So there is nothing I can do to help you.

I have known about this attack since 2012, but I did not publicly talk about how insecure SMS is for promoting an anti-fraud product.

Note, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are other attack vectors that only I know!

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

How come you forget about HLR?

Banks can see. There are lot of APIs on the web that provides this capability.

One example,

https://www.messagebird.com/lookup/

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

https://positive-tech.com/products/signalling-firewall/

Please try attacking this Firewall.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

This attack is based on a Routing network not SS7.

CDMA carriers don't use SS7 for SMS unless you're on Roaming.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

The Banks already has anti fraud detection systems in place to detect Roaming attacks. They can see whether number is Roaming enabled or not.

The Telecoms do prevent it with Firewalls.

As for CDMA, Please see,

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Verizon%20SS7%20L...

wealthyyyon A hacker got all my texts for $16

Both articles provides zero evidence other than concept of attack in general and all of them just claiming that mobile numbers can be hacked.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Look, Any Vice reporter can be bribed. You're missing the point.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

You are personally attacking me for no reason. What does my other comments has to do with this comment?

I don't care whether you believe me or not. This is a fake news at it's best.

Regarding my comments,

[1] That lady is self marketing guru. It's confirmed everywhere even Reddit.

[2] Modern C++ is simpler than TypeScript, Go, Rust. Modern C++ become more like Python.

https://preshing.com/20141202/cpp-has-become-more-pythonic/

https://web.archive.org/web/20131015192353/http://cpp-next.c...

[3] The comment about Christ is a Joke. Can't I make Jokes on HN?

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Please see my comments at this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26468892

A lot of people confirmed this as FUD.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

All your references are pointing to Lucky225 who is trying to market his anti-fraud product.

NetNumber has no competitors. It's a routing database.

The Vice article is a paid piece. This attack doesn't work with any of US Mobile carriers.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

You don't need LOAs. You need a contract and an API with a upstream provider where you can attack numbers real-time.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

This is not a SS7 attack. SS7 attacks doesn't work in practice. Eg A lot of carriers in US are CDMA. GSMA Carriers like AT&T has great firewalls in place to block SS7 attacks.

Further, You can detect SS7 attacks. Major Banks already has measures in place...

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

The attack also works with Canadian carriers.

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

This applies to Canada as-well

wealthyyyon Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Mr Krebs, Please do your due diligence. The attack vector only works for Landlines, VOIP, Toll-free.

Upstream agreements already block Mobile carriers.

Further, SMS from Short Codes are blocked by default. You can only receive SMS from long-numbers. Eg Wicker ..

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