I was indeed paid to post this, although not very much. I liked the core concept of what they wan...

30 juillet 20261 min

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street cred. This university research place which is trying to understand "hackers", or whatever, got monies from some place to study stinky nerds. These non-nerds were like, "well, they do crime, surely hackers and stuff have a similar psychology to other criminals". They quickly learned however that cyber criminals are FAR more paranoid than regular criminals. With regular criminals, like a drug dealer or something, you can usually approach them and try to talk. It makes it easier because you can physically see them. With cyber criminals on the other hand, it is extremely difficult to approach them because they're (usually) hyper-paranoid and (usually) have extreme anti-government and/or anti-authority beliefs. Additionally, unlike a majority of criminals, cyber-criminals place great importance on intellectualism and meritocracy. When this university place tried to approach hackers, they were coming in as anonymous nobodies who had no merit and no background in anything technical. As the many nerds who follow this social media profile know, people who put out work, produce work, or do SOMETHING are (usually) treated well (or better) or given respect. It is kind of like, stinky nerd street cred. Anyway, they found vx-underground and asked for my help to push the study. They ascertained I had stinky nerd street cred and hoped I could help them. Whenever they tried on their own they were called racial slurs, told to fuck off, were ignored, or called feds (or all of these combined). tl;dr stinky internet nerds not think like like criminals, have different philosophies on stuff

I was indeed paid to post this, although not very much. I liked the core concept of what they wanted to do. I think the people behind it are chill. My monies was given to me because I have stinky nerd street cred. This university research place which is trying to understand "hackers", or whatever, got monies from some place to study stinky nerds.

These non-nerds were like, "well, they do crime, surely hackers and stuff have a similar psychology to other criminals". They quickly learned however that cyber criminals are FAR more paranoid than regular criminals. With regular criminals, like a drug dealer or something, you can usually approach them and try to talk. It makes it easier because you can physically see them. With cyber criminals on the other hand, it is extremely difficult to approach them because they're (usually) hyper-paranoid and (usually) have extreme anti-government and/or anti-authority beliefs.

Additionally, unlike a majority of criminals, cyber-criminals place great importance on intellectualism and meritocracy. When this university place tried to approach hackers, they were coming in as anonymous nobodies who had no merit and no background in anything technical. As the many nerds who follow this social media profile know, people who put out work, produce work, or do SOMETHING are (usually) treated well (or better) or given respect. It is kind of like, stinky nerd street cred. Anyway, they found vx-underground and asked for my help to push the study.

They ascertained I had stinky nerd street cred and hoped I could help them. Whenever they tried on their own they were called racial slurs, told to fuck off, were ignored, or called feds (or all of these combined).