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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

[18:49:46] absentia cardboardbox: there is no way to know

[18:49:57] absentia in 2026 you should operate under the constant assumption that everything is rooted

[18:53:35] absentia lol

[18:53:49] absentia street level thugs can't do shit

[18:53:57] absentia they either lack the esoterica of 0days and technique

[18:54:02] absentia (possibly soon to be eroded by AI)

[18:54:10] absentia or the compute capital

[18:54:14] absentia cardboardbox: i have in fact tried

[18:54:21] absentia many mainstream vendors' default WPA2 PSKs

[18:54:29] absentia are out of range for all but large corporations and nationstate actors

[18:54:37] absentia it is in principle possible to brute force the entire keyspace

[18:54:41] absentia of a 10 digit hexadecimal PSK

[18:54:46] absentia but it will cost you on the order of $250k-$1M

[18:54:52] absentia chump change for the NSA

[18:54:55] absentia inaccessible to street level thugs

[18:55:02] absentia cardboardbox: first principles is good

[18:55:16] absentia i am saying if your threat model is a "street level thug" with no capacity with computers

[18:55:23] absentia beyond copy/pasting from .tk or geocities sites

[18:55:30] absentia you've not much to worry about on the rootkit end of things

[18:55:37] absentia unless they gain physical access to your compute

[18:55:52] absentia now of course

[18:55:55] absentia visiting said .tk sites

[18:56:00] absentia may expose you to driveby downloads

[18:56:02] absentia various webp 0days

[18:56:04] absentia etc

[18:56:08] absentia but that's a different threat model and threat actor

[18:56:11] absentia than "street level thugs"

[18:56:13] absentia that's more like

[18:56:15] absentia "cyberspace lowlifes"

[18:56:22] absentia i.e. scammers and advertising agencies

[18:56:36] absentia now cardboardbox

[18:56:39] absentia i invite you to prove me wrong

[18:56:44] absentia get yourself a copy of claude opus 4.6

[18:56:47] absentia or maybe even just some distilled model

[18:56:53] absentia and try actively pentesting your local neighborhood

[18:56:58] absentia i await your results

[18:57:04] absentia i think there exist some low hanging fruit here Shahid

[18:57:17] absentia then you will be hacked cardboardbox.

[18:57:22] absentia it is the reality of 2026

[18:57:26] absentia this is not a matter of faith

[18:57:29] absentia it is a matter of fact

[18:57:36] absentia first-hand knowledge

[20:23:36] absentia Shahid:

[20:24:07] absentia grep for my "hot thesis" earlier today

[20:24:20] absentia pay attention to my points on the re-emergence of "religious thinking" vis-a-vis technology and AI

[20:24:27] absentia Shahid: then read cardboardbox's chats above

[20:24:34] absentia it's happening

[20:24:37] absentia i assure you

[20:24:39] absentia right now

[20:28:13] absentia cardboardbox:

[20:28:34] absentia 14:14:53 &absentia | ok

[20:28:36] absentia 14:14:55 &absentia | hot thesis #chads

[20:28:38] absentia 14:15:14 &absentia | religious thinking is the byproduct of not understanding what lies beneath abstractions

[20:28:40] absentia 14:15:19 &absentia | example

[20:28:42] absentia 14:15:29 &absentia | fundamentalist christianity, creationism

[20:28:44] absentia 14:15:34 &absentia | god made the earth in 7 days, etc

[20:28:46] absentia 14:15:47 &absentia | this kind of naive, utterly ignorant cosmology and general mode of thinking

[20:28:48] absentia 14:15:55 &absentia | was completely obsoleted by the likes of galileo, copernicus, newton, etc.

[20:28:50] absentia 14:16:06 &absentia | who were not content with poor abstractions (read; fictions) with poor explanatory power

[20:28:52] absentia 14:16:24 &absentia | the only reason that kind of creationist thinking existed

[20:28:54] absentia 14:16:30 &absentia | is because the religious yokels of old did not understand

[20:28:56] absentia 14:16:32 &absentia | the mechanism

[20:28:58] absentia 14:16:35 &absentia | the mechanics of the universe

[20:31:27] absentia cardboardbox: #chads

[20:31:33] absentia #linux has an upper bound on the complexity and size of thought

[20:31:42] absentia popcorn sized ideas for popcorn sized brains

[20:32:18] absentia you're an idiot

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