Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

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Title : Calling All Hackers Author : cts ==Phrack Inc.== Volume 0x10, Issue 0x47, Phile #0x11 of 0x11 |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| |=-----------------------=[ Calling All Hackers ]=-----------------------=| |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| |=--------------------------=[ cts (@gf_256) ]=--------------------------=| |=-----------------------------------------------------------------------=| --[ Table of Contents 0 - Preamble 1 - About the Author 2 - The Birth of a Shitcoin 3 - How Money Works 3.1 - Fixed Income 3.2 - Equities 3.3 - Shareholder Value 4 - Startup Blues 5 - Takeaways 6 - Thanks 7 - References 8 - Appendix --[ 0 - Preamble Hi. I'm cts, also known as gf_256, ephemeral, or a number of other handles. I am a hacker and now a small business owner and CEO. In this article, I would like to share my experience walking these two different paths. A hacker is someone who understands how the world works. It's about knowing what happens when you type "google.com" and press Enter. It's about knowing how your computer turns on, about memory training, A20, all of that. It's about modern processors, their caches, and their side channels. It's about DSi bootloaders and how the right electromagnetic faults can be used to jailbreak them. And it's about how Spotify and Widevine and AES and SGX work so you can free your music from the shackles of DRM. But being a hacker is so much more than these things. It's about knowing where to find things. Like libgen and Sci-Hub and nyaa. Or where to get into the latest IDA Pro group buy. Or which trackers have what and how to get into them. It's about knowing how to bypass email verification. How to bypass SMS verification. How to bypass that stupid fucking verification where you hold your driver's license up to a webcam (thank you, OBS virtual camera!) Having an actual threat model not just paranoia. Knowing that you're not worth burning a 0day on...