/cyb/ - cyberpunk and cybersecurity

>>3511
Of course I would use it discreetly to execute my nefarious plans.
Just like everyone else here.

>>3513
It's kinda funny how hacker culture apparently contradicts itself.
On one hand, they claim that 'information should be free' and all that, on the other, the whole scene was always based on this 'not-sharing-private-exploits-with-skids/noobs' principle and subsequent hierarchy 'elite/non-elite'.

(Obviously, this does not apply to everyone)

>they claim that 'information should be free'

Obviously, they want access to information which is not disclosed to them, in order to feel superior themselves. Powerless people who want power.
It's a widespread behavior in many forms. For instance, elitists who jump from one language to another in order to find the most obscure one, or hiding behind a wall of maths or whatever discipline presented in the scariest way, in order to discourage people to come get that seemingly free knowledge.
In an idyllic world where Google died, and everything is free as in freedom running on Gentoo, many if not most cyberpunk keyboard warriors would be looking for another cheap way to feel different, be it political or something else entirely. Or simply hiding or encrypting "free code" to "protect it" from skids.
That's hypocrisy, really.

>>3511
Publicly disclosing a vulnerability in a widely-used program because you have a "disagreement with contemporary state of infosec" is an asshole move. That's like a firefighter unplugging the smoke alarms in a community hall because of an argument in the fire brigade. The people you've hurt had nothing to do with the disagreements you have, and you've actively made the group you're a member of worse as a whole.

>>3539
>It's kinda funny how hacker culture apparently contradicts itself.
Not really. "Hacker culture" has been masturbatory garbage since day one.

thanks

no idea what to do with this but nice for deconstruction anyways

>>3511
> If you ever find a 0day, what would you do with it?
The 0days I've found were in software I use.
I /could/ just patch my build of it, but I'm too lazy to do that each time I update.
I'm also lazy enough that if reporting the bug is too much of a pain in the ass I just don't bother.