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Hackers Dissect ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 4 Episode 10: ‘Gone’

Every week, a roundtable of hackers discusses the latest episode of Mr. Robot. Episode 10 of Mr. Robot’s final season was kind of weird and slow and had very little hacking, so we discussed [SPOILERS, obvs] post-doxing, OPR investigations, eCoin, getaway plans, and why we think Darlene would or would not work for Cyber Ops (The chat transcript has been edited for brevity, clarity, and chronology.)

This week’s team of experts includes:

Em Best: a former hacker and current journalist and transparency advocate with a specialty in counterintelligence and national security.

Bill Budington: a long-time activist, security trainer, and a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Harlo Holmes: Director of Digital Security at Freedom of the Press Foundation.

Yael Grauer (moderator): an investigative tech reporter covering online privacy and security, digital freedom, mass surveillance and hacking.

Post-Dox

Yael: I thought the doxing aftermath was kind of realistic—the breathless news reports, “OMG, this might actually be legit.”

Harlo: Loved that they spelled it with two xxes.

Em: The reporter's confusion about leaked data was horribly familiar.

Bill: I'm curious where the show will go from here. Now that they've accomplished what they set out to do, what now?

Em: The machine.Elliot's going back to Washington Township to take care of that, and presumably the final confrontation with Whiterose.

Yael: OH! Explain! I wasn’t sure what was happening at WA Township

Em: I'm not either, but I think that's where an initial version of the machine or prep for it was being done, under or by the power plant. Elliot was looking at the drive Price gave him with the plans on it, and said he had to go back. So I figure he's going back there to hack/destroy it or mess up shipping it to the Congo. I'm not sure what's going on there, we saw a few close-ups of the text on the drive as Elliot reviewed it, but they didn't reveal much. Something about particle collisions or interactions, protons or photons, I forget which.

Yael: I hope not more Protonmail.

Dom in the Hospital

Yael: So even Dom, a trusty FBI agent, is getting questioned on her fucking hospital bed.

Bill: I mean this was after the FBI just discovered that Dom had been working for the DA, so It's hardly a surprise.

Em: In the FBI's eyes, not so trusty. She committed a lot of crimes and violated protocol on how to handle that.

Yael: I'm not sure entirely what she told them, though?

Em: They didn't tell us, but the impression was that the FBI agent thought she'd told the Bureau everything.

Bill: I assume she told them the whole story, other than that she was working with Darlene at the end?

Em: Oh yeah, Darlene was probably left out.

Yael: OH okay then it would make sense that they were investigating her, I guess?

Em: Yeah. Checking out her story, making sure there wasn't more to it, investigating other crimes, etc.

Bill: The only reason she wasn't a loyal employee was that she was forced into the DA deal, so it makes sense that after her handler was killed and the DA hierarchy collapsed, she'd go back to being a loyal FBI employee.

Em: Even if OPR "clears" her, she's probably done in the Bureau. She was compromised. It's not her fault, but that's the situation and that's how the FBI would likely handle it. OPR = Office of Professional Responsibility, DOJ's office that reviews wrongful conduct.

Bill: Ah maybe you're right there

Yael: So she never gets to see her family again?

Bill: I think she will, once the FBI clears her as not a threat.

Yael: Well, if she's not an FBI agent, she doesn't get access to those locations, does she? Unclear, I guess?

Em: That's a bit of a stretch. She supposedly would. Once they review things, her family will supposedly be released from the safe house, though they may be in or going to WITSEC now.

Yael: I figured only agents would get safehouse location data

The hack.

Yael: Looks like they explained what they did with tumblers, shell accounts, redistristribution… Y'all happy with the explanation?

Em: Yeah.

Bill: I'm not sure about how one would evenly distribute a lump sum into all accounts on a cryptocurrency, but I'm chalking it up to Movie Magic

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Em: eCoin works really differently from everything else, apparently. eCorp had access to everyone's wallets and could see inside them, so to speak, so it's possible fSociety was able to get a list of the active wallets and split the money between them. If transfer speeds were fast enough and required little enough energy, an algorithm to do the transfer kind of makes sense.

The Escape Plan

Yael: What did you think of the Darlene/Dom getaway plan?

Bill: The passports looked like they were way too big.

Em: Do we know what airport they were flying out of? Because if they were still in the U.S., then it was a bad plan.

Harlo: Logan. In Boston.

Em: Yeah, then it was a bad plan.Especially so close to the U.S.-Canada border. They should've crossed it before getting on a plane, I think.

Bill: Logan has extra tight security. It's no small Airport. It's the one that one of the planes from 9/11 left from.

Em: Yeah. And Boston security in general got beefed up again after the Marathon (even though it's disconnected and unrelated, people don't do security logically).

Harlo: I don't have much to add to this ep recap, but I just want to say joey bada$$ should call me

Em: SAME. Also, I need the Darlene – Leon spinoff to happen.

Yael: Maybe he will call you next episode. Darlene can call me. I will fly with her wherever.

Em: His last lines in the episode were even, "I'll see you next episode"

Yael: Yes, he's gonna call Harlo next episode.

Irving

Yael: lol at Dom running into Irving at the airport. And he wrote some kind of beach thriller.

Em: That was so weird, too. Not realistic unless it was staged. Also, no way the airport would dedicate an entire stand to his book. No way.

Yael: Did anybody else think it was weird that Dom took what he said at face value?

Em: Very.

Yael: Like suddenly machete dude is a reliable narrator? "Oh I guess my life isn't in danger anymore. Got it."

Em: Him not attacking her—inside an airport!—doesn't mean she's free and clear.

After running in to him, they should have left the airport. DA would know where they were flying out of, could review camera footage, see the flight, and know where to start tracking them down if they were so inclined.

Yael: And go where?

Em: Any other airport or train station, or preferably outside the U.S.

Yael: I'm trying to think of the most successful high profile runaway plan, and I think it's Tre Arrow. He evaded police for a long time.

Bill: Well, I figure that if they knew they were headed for Logan the DA would have gotten them before that. Think about it: why confront them at Logan?

Em: Oh, agreed—but assuming arguendo it was a random encounter, it was still a bad call to get on the plane because why wouldn't he report that? DA not wanting to kill them actively at the moment, assuming that was true, doesn't mean at all that they wouldn't want the intel about where they were going. Like if you're gonna be paranoid go all the way, lol

Yael: It also seemed like Dom was totally unprepared for both Leon and Irving

it seemed a little out of character, though she was pretty shell-shocked. But like if she wasn't evading the feds she could've just reported the run-in to them?

Em: Very shell-shocked, and did she even sleep before the end of the episode?

Yael: You aren't really supposed to fly right after surgery either, I don't think.But I guess it depends on the surgery.

Bill: Apparently as long as she didn't disturb the stitching she would be fine. but you know, people heal quick in TV shows

Em: I wouldn't think that a long flight would be okay (not that I'm a medic). Air pressure changes, lack of mobility and no chance for medical care if something goes wrong.

Yael: She also left the hospital right away. Not advisable.

Em: Right, yeah. And hadn't slept or taken proper care of herself, as far as I can tell.

Yael: Plus, Darlene destroyed Alexa, so she's all alone.

Em: Highlight of the episode

Bill: Poor Alexa. What did alexa do to deserve this? (Oh yeah, siphon off everyone's info to Amazon.)

Yael: Alexa was cockblocking Darlene.

Harlo: Alexa knows what she did.

Dom the Recruiter

Yael: lol Darlene working for Cyber Command

Harlo: It's obvious that intelligence is taking a cooler approach to hackers nowadays. I once thought of joining the FBI when I first graduated college (waaaaaaaay back in the day). I filled out the application online, and the last question was "have you done marajuana in the past three months" (or similar) and I was LITERALLY smoking a joint at the time. And i answered honestly, because "America" and the form replied, "Try again in seven years.” (Or similar, I forget the actual times.)

Em: I had that issue with a recruiter once, in my former life.

"How much marijuana have you smoked?"

"I can give you a ballpark."

"No I need a number."

"What?"

"How many joints?"

"That's… that's not how it works. And I don't remember. Everyday for years. It's pain management."

"Okay but how many times?"

"I can't give you an honest answer. Any specific number I give you will be inaccurate."

"No I need a number."

"Okay, grey line it is." lmao

And then I did that and started leaking things, then I left corporate/contractor intel shit and kept on leaking things lol

Harlo: Curious to hear your recruiter story! I had one, but I slept on them. And then they poached my really good friend, and I had to be interviewed (and fucking vetted!) to serve as a reference for the person they ended up hiring

Em: First recruiter was when I was 17, basically wanted me to stay at a certain school and then go to NSA. Offered to make exceptions and let me have a private room, play with Beowulf cluster, all sorts of goodies. But, uh, it was a Christian evangelical uni in Texas and TL;DR, they did not like The Queers

️. So I got out of dodge. The one above was Marines, I think. Which was funny because my roommate was a Marine and he gave my room to his CO while I was out one day.

Harlo: This is interesting! Because their talent pool is sooooooo limited because they're ultimately shitheads, but whatevs. You can be queer, you can do a fuckton of drugs (within reason), you can (insert stuff here).

Em: ..with consent.

Harlo: And you can fucking hack or osint or be otherwise usefull.

Yael: lol at Dom thinking Darlene would ever work for Cyber Command. I mean, honestly.

Harlo: Hmmmm. Maybe. I can kinda see it.

Yael: IRL all of FSociety would quit talking to Darlene for being into Dom and call her a snitch and put her on all those snitches get stitches web pages. If she went to jail they would cut jail support. She'd get egged in public, etc.

Bill: Yeah running from the feds and then joining them is such a Catch Me if You Can move. Thanks, Frank Abignale.

Yael: But even if she didn't join them, I think Darlene associating with Dom might make her persona non grata.

Em: Could be. A lotta folks in the hacker community haven't forgiven me for my old life still, even though I never acted against any hackers or activists. Tainted for life and constantly snitch jacketed now. sadlol

Harlo: I have been very wrong so far, but I STILL think that darlene has the snitch streak. I just think she'd be a perfect fed.

Em: I could see her thinking what I did once upon a time (not that I was a fed, I never worked directly for any government agency in any country), that she could be the change she wanted to see.

Yael: The feds wouldn't be able to handle her, though.

Em: Probably not, no.

Yael: Policy is the only government job I can see someone like Darlene working.

Post-op anxiety

Yael: Should we fast forward to the airplane scene? I kind of want to talk about anxiety in general. There was a “hacking your anxiety” talk at CactusCon that I missed but it looked interesting

Bill: Anxiety can definitely interrupt normal sleep cycles. It doesn't surprise me that's what Darlene is going. through after all she's been through

Yael: I guess it seemed a little odd to me that she wasn't shown having anxiety attacks sooner

Em: There was kind of the one anxiety attack we saw in the recap, and mentions of it, but I think we should've seen smaller bouts of anxiety throughout or stuff creeping up on her. I get that after a big op she's more likely to have the breakdown because she's letting go of everything, but…

Yael: Yeah, IDK, maybe it was the final straw for her, but she'd been through way worse before.Angela died, Cisco died, she picked up Elliot from a burning van, etc. IDK. And then the plane thing was so Gift of the Magi. The whole tone of this episode just felt off for the show.

Bill: Yeah, I agree. Very downtempo.

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healthcareexecutive · 4 years

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Do You Network?

This year I set a goal to attend 30 networking events. Why 30? No reason. It just sounded like a nice, round number. I figured I needed to attend 2.5 every month, or 5 every other month. I have to admit, I was getting nervous entering the month of December. As I reflect on these events I attended, I have to think, there were some events that I had to double think whether I was going to attend. Those events that I took a pause on turned out to be the best events. Reflecting back, I have to say that 2019 was the most promising year in terms of meeting new people, making new connections, and learning new skills. The one thing I learned above all else, is simply to go. No matter how uncomfortable I felt going into an event, especially the ones outside of healthcare, I forced myself to go. And to tell you the truth, I came away from each event having glad I attended. So what's in store for 2020? 35 events!

1) 01.17.19 - Changing the Stigma of Addiction with Judge Linda Davis - Detroit, MI

2) 01.24.19 - MGMA's 2019 State Leaders Conference - Denver, CO

3) 02.05.19 - MCACHE's 2018 Year End Celebration

4) 02.23.19 - University of Detroit Mercy's CBA Alumni Volunteer Event - Detroit, MI

5) 02.27.19 - MCACHE's Ann Arbor Social Mixer - Ann Arbor, MI

6) 04.04.19 - MCACHE's Fostering Inclusion of LGBT Patients & the Healthcare Workforce - Southfield, MI

7) 04.10.19 - LinkedIn Local Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor, MI

8) 04.18.19 - TechTown Detroit's MedHealth Summit - Detroit, MI

9) 04.23.19 - Beta Gamma Sigma's Detroit Networking Dinner - Detroit, MI

10) 04.26.19 - MCACHE's You're a Leader, Now What? Event - Livona, MI

11) 05.01.19 - American Urological Association Annual Conference - Chicago, IL

12) 05.08.19 - MiMGMA's 2019 Spring Conference - Port Huron, MI

13) 05.13.19 - MCACHE's Beaumont Proton Therapy Center Tour - Southfield, MI

14) 05.30.19 - MCACHE's Michigan Healthcare Security Operations Center Networking Tour - Plymouth, MI

15) 06.06.19 - MCACHE's Michigan and Ohio as Top 10 Healthiest States, What it Will Take to Get There? - Southfield, MI

16) 07.24.19 - LinkedIn Local Ann Arbor - Ann Arbor, MI

17) 08.15.19 - MCACHE's Gift of Life Networking Tour - Ann Arbor, MI

18) 09.10.19 - University of Michigan's Early Career Community of Practice Event - Ann Arbor, MI

19) 09.13.19 - Green Oak Township HOA Meet and Greet - South Lyon, MI

20) 09.18.19 - Beta Gamma Sigma's Detroit Alumni Chartering Event - Detroit, MI

21) 09.29.19 - MiMGMA's 2019 Fall Conference - Mackinac Island, MI

22) 10.03.19 - MCACHE's Leading a Successful Multigenerational Organization from a Millennial's Point of View - Perrysburg, OH

23) 10.15.19 - Lawrence Technological University's 2019 President's Symposium - Southfield, MI

24) 10.17.19 -MCACHE's 2019 Emerging Leader's Summit - Detroit, MI

25) 10.17.19 - MCACHE's Dinner with the C-Suite Dinner, Livonia, MI

26) 11.07.19 - MCACHE's 2019 Annual Event - Dearborn, MI

27) 12.03.19 - Beta Gamma Sigma's Detroit Alumni Dinner - An Evening with Kristin Meekhof - Ann Arbor, MI

28) 12.04.19 - MCACHE's Emerging Leader State of the State of Healthcare in Michigan Networking Event - Southfield, MI

29) 12.11.19 - Detroit Young Professional's 2019 Holiday Party at Lululemon - Detroit, MI

30) 12.19.19 - Lifechanging Brian Tracy Seminar to Jumpstart 2020 - Doubling Your Productivity - Troy, MI

#network networking healthcare business executive connections

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aboutsingapore · 7 years

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China’s auto-maker Geely to turn township into Malaysia’s Detroit

According to an article by the Malaysian state agency, Bernama, for which everything is going well in the country, the Chinese auto-maker Zhejiang Geely Holdings Group is set to turn sleepy township of Tanjung Malim into Malaysia’s Detroit. Tanjung Malim is the home of the national car maker Proton. Bernama said thousands of new jobs are expected […] http://bit.ly/2uqyoZA

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 4 years

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“Pals,” Toronto Globe. January 8, 1930. Page 01. ---- To the Southeast Corner: Enclosed will be found photo of Sandy McPherson, Concession 10, Proton Township, and his pet rooster. Needless to say, Sandy is very proud of his pet, and the expression on Sandy’s face will bear out that statement. The posture of the rooster bespeaks confidence in his owner, and would give the impression that the bird thinks his master a ‘good head.’ This ‘Cock of the North’ is head overseer over a flock of hens which are consistent layers. -- F.D.M. Dundalk.

#proton township #dundalk #grey county #rooster #pet bird #chicken farm #farming in canada #rural canada #great depression in canada

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 5 years

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“Byrne Receives Two Years In Penitentiary,” The Flesherton Advance. October 25, 1939. Page 01. ---- Injuries to his head received two years ago were blamed by Patrick Byrne, 31-year-old transient, for his actions in terrorizing the pupils and teacher, as well as the caretaker of S. S. N. 2 Proton on Oct. 10 and 11. Byrne was sentenced to two years in Kingston Penitentiary after he had pleaded guilty to charges of breaking and entering and theft and a charge of carrying an offensive weapon. He appeared before Magsitrate E. C. Spereman in police court at Owen Sound on Thursday morning.

Byrne was charged with breaking and entering Gardner’s hardware store at Dundalk on Sept. 19, with breaking and entering Karstedt’s store at Flesherton on the same date and carrying an offensive weapon in Proton township. He elected summary trial on all three charges and pleaded guilty.

Asked by Magistrate Spereman if he had anything to say before sentence was passed, Byrne referred to a fractured skull he received in an accident two years ago.

‘I received injuries to my head two ago and I haven’t felt the same since,’ Byrne said.

Crown Attorney J. F. P. Birnie, K. C., told the court that Byrne was convicted at Woodstock on three charges of breaking and entering.

Byrne was not represented by counsel at the police court on Thursday.

Provincial Constable Harold Black of Flesherton related to the court the circumstances surrounding the three crimes to which Byrne pleaded guilty.

On Sept. 19, Provincial Constable Black said Gardner’s Hardware Store at Dundalk was entered by a man who made his way down a back stair and broke a window. A .22 calibre single-shot rifle was stolen. This gun equipped with a peep-sight for accurate shooting, was produced in court.

On the same date Fred Karsted’s store at Flesherton was entered by a burglar who removed the cellar window. Overalls, underwear, a smock, leather coat, and leather hat were stolen.

On Oct. 10, Constable Black said, he received a call from Proton Township and was informed that the caretaker of S.S. No. 2, Proton, on entering the school at 7 a.m. that morning, had been accosted by a man who had fired at him from a rifle. A search of the surrounding district failed to reveal the culprit.

On Oct. 11, Constable Black received another call. This time he was informed that a man armed with a rifle had chased the teacher of S.S. No. 2, Proton, Graham Beard, and his pupils into the school. He had demanded admittance when refused he told those inside the school to stand back, then he fired a shot through the top of the door. He then fled across the fields to a nearby swamp.

This swamp was surrounded and the same afternoon Byrne was discovered. He had the rifle stolen from the Dundalk store in his possession. The clothing stolen from the Flesherton store was found in an old barn.

[AL: Byrne was an Irish immigrant to Canada, from Althone, arriving via Quebec in 1928, likely as part of the Empire resettlement schemes at the time intended to find the ‘right’ sort of man for agricultural labour. Byrne appeared to have worked as an itinerant farm labourer for much of the 1930s, as did many other young people. The penitentiary doctor rated his mentally as ‘normal’ despite his own statement about his brain injury from 1937. The fact that he had no counsel and no doctor examined him during the trial is just a tiny example of the numerous small scale travesties of the Ontario court system during the Depression. At the time of his reign of chaos, he had been unemployed for six weeks - likely laid off after the harvesting was over on the farm he worked at. At the penitentiary, Byrne was sent to work the prison farm, and was transferred to Collin’s Bay in Jan. 1940, where he also worked on the farm tending cattle. He was released May 27, 1941.]

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“EARL PEGELO SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS,” Owen Sound Sun Times. March 18, 1932. Page 1. ---- Isabel O’Brien, Walkerton, Goes to Mercer for 6 Months --- KILLED DEER ---- Three Proton Men Are Fined for Shooting Deer ---- Earl Pegelo, Hanover, was sentenced to three years in the Portsmouth Penitentiary on a charge of breaking and entering a store in Hanover and one year in the Ontarlo Reformatory at Guelph on a charge of stealing a motor car. Isabel O'Brien of Walkerton was sentenced to six months in the Reformatory at Mercer on a charge of breaking and entering. Pegelo had been brought to Owen Sound from Simcoe, where Pegelo was convicted on similar charges, and sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary. His new sentence will run concurrently with the one given him in Simcoe.

Fred Gilkes of Proton township pleaded not guilty to a charge of accepting a bribe to abstain from giving evidence in a criminal case which was heard recently in Dundalk. He was convicted of the charge and sentenced to four months in the Ontario Reformatory. The conviction hinged on a point of law as he had accepted $25 as a bribe but had then gone into court and given evidence and even helped the police In fact. The magistrate, however, ruled that he was just as guilty as if he had not given evidence at all.

The three Gilkes brothers, Fred, Ernest, and Henry, all of Proton, were then charged with hunting and killing a deer out of season. There was considerable evidence to this case. Robert McPherson, who was the first witness called told of the brothers coming to his farm where the deer was shot and then bringing back one piece of vension and the head. A piece was also given to his brother, Alex. McPherson, Game Warden Robinson of Orangeville, who laid the charge, gave considerable evidence as well. They were all found guilty and each fined $20 and costs.

On Thursday morning, George Reicken of Owen Sound was convicted of having liquor illegally and lined $100 and costs.

[AL: Pegelo was 19 and the child of Italian immigrants to the area. He had previously been in the Mimico Reformatory. He was convict #2574 at Kingston Penitentiary, worked on the prison farm, and was transferred May 1932 to Collin’s Bay Penitentiary. He was released from there without incident in February 1934.]

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