A kid named Big Balls (with some shady stuff in his past) hacked into gov’t computer systems for Elon Musk, but “there’s little chance that he could have passed a background check for privileged access to government systems” (that he now has access to).
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Cybercrime and security journalist Brian Krebs has more information on Big Balls (Edward Coristine):
Oh man, I have so many stories about that "startup". The founder Marshall Webb spent a year harassing me because I posted a research paper on the Mirai botnet (he considered himself to be the sole authority). It later turned out his knowledge came from him personally hosting their infrastructure 1/5
https://bsky.app/profile/agreenberg.bsky.social/post/3lhilngyhgn2i
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