<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> </p><p>Good luck on that race condition.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> The reverse engineer I was working with at the time had spent about a week trying to get it to do malware things to no avail - had server side checks including geofencing before the actual payload would run.</p><p>I bet him I could get it to work in three hours.</p><p>I lost the bet because I bought the cheapest shittiest laptop and it took several hours to get to a usable state out of the box.</p><p>The malware did malware things once windows was finished doing windows things, though.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc" class="u-url mention">@<span>ryanc</span></a></span> I mean he&#39;s got a point</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://estradiol.city/@pharmafemboy" class="u-url mention">@<span>pharmafemboy</span></a></span> yeah!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I once bought a laptop for the sole purpose of infecting it with malware. The guy at the shop who sold it to me acted like I was adopting a puppy to conduct medical experiments on when I mentioned what I was doing.</p>

<p>her: &quot;see, this is the peak of reversing. you know that one day you&#39;ll run malware on your system, so every day is an exciting opportunity to play malware roulette&quot;</p>

<p>i think i might be better at this &quot;reverse engineering&quot; thing than i previously thought,,</p>

<p>me: &quot;what if it has another payload with a different [things she&#39;s setting a breakpoint for]?&quot;<br />her: &quot;well that sucks, should&#39;ve done a better job. if you don&#39;t check that your gun isn&#39;t loaded before you shoot it at yourself you&#39;ve had it coming&quot;</p>