250 years ago our greatest grandfathers beat the dogshit out of the most powerful military on the planet over a 3% tax and now we can’t deport 100 million immigrants that hate us because women and gays think it would be mean
> Peter Stokes
> Scattered Spider guy
> Arrested
> Microsoft helps FBI
> Read court documents
> Page 12
> Microsoft tracks Stokes from GDID
> Microsoft Global Device Identifier (GDID)
> Stokes used Windows
> Page 34
> GDID assigned to each OS install
> GDID unique to each device
> GDID only change if OS wiped
> Stokes GDID 6755467234350028
> GDID reported internet activity to Microsoft
> GDID showed Stokes using Ngrok
> GDID reported Stokes IP address
> GDID showed Stokes web activity
> GDID showed timestamps of web activity
> GDID mapped with video game activity
> GDID showed games played
> GDID undocumented
> GDID only mentioned in one MSDN document
> Azure UCDOStatus
> Azure Monitor Logging
>be 19yo uni student
>get into guns, think of design fix problems with current designs
>shelve drawings because broke and scammed by uni tuition
>graduate early, spend several years as code monkey
>late 20s, jeets and MBAs destroy SWE job market
>pull out drawings from a decade ago, start making 3d models out of drawings
>design new bullpup rifle from scratch in 3 months
>design barely works, since no exp or creds in MechE
>keep fixing issues and burning through savings
>start YT to document build process, terrible prod quality, barely get any views/subs
>finally get it working, parts keep breaking
>both patents granted b4 30th birthday
>make DFM, weight, cost optimizations, reduce parts count, fix breakages, continue testing
>start open sourcing parts of rifle
>still suck at marketing/social media
>looking for MFG to license
250 years, and your empire has been reduced to a single island the size of Michigan, with a GDP barely higher than Mississippi, the poorest of our fifty states.
Enjoy your warm beer in that unairconditioned old pub.
Don’t talk too much shit online though, you might get arrested.