▲ 103 ▼ Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 4 months ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago (3 children) Elite hacker uses...Windows. Come on, man. permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (1 child) The smartest guy I ever met - dizzyingly smart - coded virtual memory management replacements for Unix from putty on windows. Is that guy elite? Are you being elitist? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Mondez@lemdro.id 9 points 4 months ago I've met plenty of people who were smart in one very specific domain and dumb as bricks in pretty much all other areas. People around them would praise them from being smart but they just seemed ordinary or even below average outside their niche and I'd never refer to them as being smart myself. Maybe you are being elitist by putting this guy you knew on a pedestal when outside that one skill he impressed you with he was actually a pretty dumb person. permalink fedilink source parent [–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago The guy was like 17/18yo though permalink fedilink source parent
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (1 child) The smartest guy I ever met - dizzyingly smart - coded virtual memory management replacements for Unix from putty on windows. Is that guy elite? Are you being elitist? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Mondez@lemdro.id 9 points 4 months ago I've met plenty of people who were smart in one very specific domain and dumb as bricks in pretty much all other areas. People around them would praise them from being smart but they just seemed ordinary or even below average outside their niche and I'd never refer to them as being smart myself. Maybe you are being elitist by putting this guy you knew on a pedestal when outside that one skill he impressed you with he was actually a pretty dumb person. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 9 points 4 months ago I've met plenty of people who were smart in one very specific domain and dumb as bricks in pretty much all other areas. People around them would praise them from being smart but they just seemed ordinary or even below average outside their niche and I'd never refer to them as being smart myself. Maybe you are being elitist by putting this guy you knew on a pedestal when outside that one skill he impressed you with he was actually a pretty dumb person. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago The guy was like 17/18yo though permalink fedilink source parent