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Hey everyone so let’s see if this is interesting for anyone, here’s a link to the [ that broke the news. Since then it’s been an insane amount of interviews with french, german, south korean, south american, and international news outlets.

Recently I was on NPR’s The World and a bunch of other sh**. Anyway, AMA about the hack, personal stuff, whatever! Happy to answer. I have not yet been murdered or arrested, so that’s pretty good.

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Edit: Holy shit folks, how did this actually get popular?

I expected like 5 upvotes lol. I have to do some actual work but I'll get back to absolutely everyone that asks a question who isn't a dick :). Thanks to everyone for being here, I promise I'll be back and answer everything!

I don't have a PR team unfortunately. But I'll see if my cats are up for answering with mashed keyboard type shit in the meantime.

Edit 2: Shameless plug for my twitter but really, I do share everything I do there.

Anyway I'll STILL BE BACK. I can't believe this is at the top. I feel like president Obama. Someone just has to "an asteroid" me.

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I'm intermittently back because holy fuck 6.1k?!? Shit. OK. Time to answer, I made a promise.

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Just a word of thank you to everyone, no I am NOT leaving, I just wanted to say thanks for coming and asking shit.

Edit 5: I see some bitching about the length of the article. First of all that's Andy Fucking Greenberg, he's a fucking boss so read his shit. Second there's ChatGPT. Third here's my short summary of how i did it:

Edit 6: i’m going to sleep but keep asking and i’ll get to everyone :).

Edit 7 common questions and answers:

• yes i’m single (ok not that many have asked but fuck you it’s my AMA :P

• If you’re intelligence, DoD, or have interesting propositions beyond some vague “you should do x” (those are welcome if they’re unique) you can email me here:

• Here’s some semi-technical details of the attack:

• No civilians were harmed in the attack. Only the elite aka regime have internet access, this was quite targeted. Civilians are unlikely to even know this happened. In fact they probably don’t.

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Next person to tell me i’m an amoral imperialist is going straight to DCSA (DoD investigations)

How I hack!?

First buckle in because it’s a years not weeks or months endeavor to be good. If you’re willing to put in the work anybody can get good. It’s like Ratatouille (or Racacoonie depending on your universe), anyone can hack!

First read a fuckton of introductory online resources. Go to securitytube and watch anything by Vivek. Man knows his shit.

Find introductory courses or buy intro books, some recommendations:

• Linux Basics for Hackers

• Metasploit: something somethjng (forget the full title)

• This next one is challenging and dated but an absolute must read: Hacking the Art of exploitation

• I hear Georgia Weismann’s PenTesting book is good and she’s a nice lady. So is her mom. That’s not a mom joke. I actually met her and she’s very sweet.

• Download and learn how to use virtualbox it’s probably the easiest way to start. It’s a virtualization software that you run essentially an operating system within an operating system. It’s open North Korea’s malware on my machine and that’s why it could not spread absolutely anywhere.. it’s useful for learning other operating systems so install Linux on there. I generally recommend Linux mint or Ubuntu. Parallels for MacOS users. If you want to real challenge, install something like freeBSD and learn how to use that.

• The web application hackers handbook is the Bible Web application hacking I always tell people if you read it from cover to cover and do all of the exercises. You’ll absolutely be a really good web app hacker

• Black hat python by Justin is recommended. Justin is a really good dude and does some really amazing projects. I know he knows his shit. In terms of the actual content, the goal is to learn python so don’t worry if you don’t fully understand all of the attacks going on. Although he explains them really well.

• for mobile, hacking I don’t know fuck all about it. So ask somebody smarter than me. Georgia I mentioned earlier I did some work in there so I don’t know fucking ask her.

• If you’re interested in macOS hacking there’s just a little bit of a dated book called the macOS hackers handbook I honestly haven’t read it so I can’t speak to the quality, but is the absolute Jesus of macho ass hacking.

• for more macOS stuff there are some books that are called. I think exploiting the macOS Colonel or maybe it’s just called the macOS Colonel highly suggest those but none of these ones are for the faint of heart.

• Use a lot of resources for courses. Security tube is an amazing resource watch anything by a dude named Vivek know who I’m talking about. He has a bunch of shit on there. If you’re starting out, look for beginners shit, go onto Udemy.

• if you want to pay out the ass, but also get a certification that people actually respect there is OSCP by offensive security, but in my opinion, the shit is a little bit overrated

• For programs, you can literally just download and learn right now and nmap is one of the most important ones for beginners. I think metasploit is really important and there’s a shit ton of material out there on it. Learn how passwords are stored and cracking passwords. Even just knowing what that means is important. So look up hashing and no, it doesn’t have anything to do with smoking hash, though that is an optional step

I did see interest in MacOS so here:

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I run the publishing house Dead Ink Books. We're an independent publisher currently producing about 12 books per year. We're part of Arts Council England's National Portfolio and we even have our own bookshop in Liverpool.

Ask me any questions you have about the business and art of publishing books.

Based in the North of England, Dead Ink is a publisher unsatisfied with the mainstream.

Our aim is to do whatever we want and do it well.

Over the years we have published award-winning authors, revived cult texts and launched wildly inventive, experimental projects that everybody said would never work.

Some of our notable titles include Sealed by Naomi Booth, Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy, The Doloriad by Missouri Williams*, Starve Acre* by Andrew Michael Hurley, Jawbone by Monica Ojeda, and most recently Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie and Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

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My name is Alex and I have albinism. is a rare genetic disorder that causes reduced pigmentation of the hair and skin. It also affects vision development; most people with albinism (myself included) are visually impaired.

So go ahead, ask me anything.

My short bio: I was working at the Washington Post when I disovered that I am faceblind. That led me down a rabbit-hole where I also learned that I have Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory. I'm one of the few people officially diagnosed with SDAM. I wrote [a book] () about it, which means that I am not only a faceblind reporter, but an amnesiac autobiographer!

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I am a malware researcher, who mostly focuses on attacks and defences on Linux platform. On one hand, I dabble into offensive side (finding new evasion techniques for some specific security setup, finding new persistence/attack techniques etc.), while on other hand I dabble into defensive side, where I mostly work on finding better detection/mitigation techniques against certain attack techniques.

I do the offensive research in my personal capacity, and occasionally talk about this in various security events/meetups/conferences as time permits. Defensive research is my professional work, which gets food on my table.

Ask me anything!

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I (23F) am quickly approaching my 1 year anniversary of employment (June 20th). I really love my job, and because people are constantly asking questions about the work I do, I figure doing an AMA might be fun!

Some background information:

I have a B.A. in Anthropological Studies, with most of my interest being in cultural anthropology and death practices across various cultures. I had no intention of being in the medicolegal field or working with (sometimes) freshly dead bodies.

I have been told that "forensic techs" aren't a standardized position, so every office will require different levels of training. It is my understanding that we have a little bit more training than average, so we do eviscerations, specialized dissections, in-house dental (DEXIS), etc.

I have done autopsies on all stages of life, all stages of decomposition, simple cases like heart attacks and complex cases like amniotic fluid embolisms. Homicides, suicides, drug overdoses, traffics, etc. are regular, daily occurrences for us.

*Specific locations and the name of my office will not be shared. No identifiable information of specific decedents will be shared.

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I am a crisis counselor for Crisis Text Line, The hotline has seen some major updates with safety screening, planning and training.

I possess a bachelors degree in psychology, and dual certifications in RBT and executive functioning. In addition, I have spent over 150 hours on Crisis Text Line, and have helped close to 300 texters in crisis. (Letter of verification/some personal info blocked)

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Hello ! I’m Ashtyn, also known as Heroine of Time! I’m an admin of the Zelda Dungeon Wiki and a part of the Zelda Dungeon Marathon team! I’m excited to answer any questions you might have!

About the Marathon:

Every year, Zelda Dungeon plays through every Zelda game (including some spin-offs, minigames, and other fun events) to raise money for charity! This year we are supporting No Kid Hungry for the second year in a row after raising over $20,000 in 2023. The marathon will start next week, Saturday, June 15th at 9:45 AM Central and last until June 22nd at twitch.tv/zeldadungeon. We’d love to see you there!

About Me:

I have been part of Zelda Dungeon since 2011 and wiki staff since 2013. I have participated in the marathon itself since 2019. My favorite Zelda game is Link’s Awakening!

I’m here to answer any questions you might have about the marathon, the wiki, Zelda Dungeon itself, or any other fun topics you can think of. I am just one person but I will do my best to answer everyone!

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Hi, I’m Shiromi Arserio. I’ve been an audiobook narrator for ten years. I’ve narrated over 250 books across all genres. I’m the winner of multiple Earphone Awards and was twice nominated for the Audie Awards (kinda like the Oscars of the audiobook world).

You can find me on social media at Instagram and I am known to sometimes do live narrations on TikTok. This is a good time to prove I’m really who I say I am:

It’s June, therefore it’s audiobook month. Send me your audiobook-related questions!

I am planning to publish my work in a podcast format to make my recordings, experiences and personal insights available to the psychonaut and psychedelic community. I have recorded 118 Experiences so far. I originally started this very personal and private project only for myself. Now, I actually beliefe it could be of value to some individuals in the world wide hyperspace. Ask me anything! Feel free to comment, critique and connect with me: My Instagram is

Will the things we look at change, when we change the way we look at things? This is an invitation for both you and myself to play along…