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To: taildragger
You win the FR-Innerweb award of the day.

I'm not sure I worthy of that. I trade currency for a living by the way. Been stuck in a CADJPY trade all day and it ain't moving anywhere, have to wait until Tokyo wakes up. At least my occupation allows me to be on FR a lot.

When it comes to Bitcoin, I am semi knowledgeable technology-wise. I was in IT for 35 years and did some systems programming/security work. I am getting to know cryptocurrencies to trade - developing strategies and writing some robots to trade. They are different than normal fiat currencies and require a different strategy, but in the end it is just another financial instrument to trade. I do not view cryptocurrencies as a hedge against inflation or devalued dollar (and the USD is plenty devalued right now). Hard commodities provide that.

95 posted on 06/08/2021 1:18:38 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Back in the day - remote, dumb terminals and a centralized computer - I spoofed an ASCII login screen with a simple BASIC program that appeared when I apparently logged out.

As a new user attempted to login, it asked for the password, but it again appeared to fail; so it showed the normal looking Try Again message.

This time, after the thing failed again, the normal-looking logoff screen appeared; and logged off from my account.

The frustrated user, of which there were many already, merely tried to login again - which then worked.

I never did figure out what to do with those stolen passwords, as I barely knew enough to run my authentic programs at the time. I had no idea how to phish for anything else.


102 posted on 06/09/2021 5:33:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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104 posted on 06/09/2021 5:55:24 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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