Adam Klaff

@klaff.bsky.social

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Accident waiting to happen.

mailer insert for a sci book subscription
Ted Turner interview from 2008 about capitalism
Heartwarming slideshow of some early moments with me.
Partial chat transcript from ChatGPT about how many living people have an Aerosmith tattoo
Email detailing massive payout of $7.43 for Equifax data breach.
Pinsky’s entry point was playing Call of Duty online, where he was introduced to a user named @Ferno, who he learned was a hacker. Ferno impressed Pinsky with his ability to get whatever he wanted on the internet. Pinsky started doing menial tasks for Ferno, whose true identity he says he still doesn’t know, gathering information that would be useful to target someone for identity fraud or to break into their accounts. He also began teaching himself to code in Structured Query Language, so he could break into companies’ databases and steal employee data. He found a niche selling information from those networks on the private message service XMPP, bantering with criminals there in the fluent Russian he’d learned from his mother, a doctor who emigrated from the Soviet Union.