I don't know about that... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679907
So then this has to be fake then, obviously. Apparently George Hotz (geohot/tomcr00se) won a few CTFs single handedly [0][1].
I'm sure that marcan is also genius as well, unfortunately though Hotz is somehow still able to stay relevant, continuously.
[0] https://www.koscom.co.kr/eng/bbs/B0000043/view.do?nttId=1040...
[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nyu-poly-cyber-secu...
The only difference between the twos is that Geohot does a lot of thing for the fame (or at least it seems so), and marcan does that only for fun.
I'm okay with both tbh, if you are at this level you deserve some fame
> Wait. Oh no. Some game developer somewhere is going to try to use this as a synchronization primitive, aren't they. Please don't. The world has enough cursed code already. Don't do it. Stop it. Noooooooooooooooo
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> Then perhaps you should stop reading that news site, just like they stopped reading this site after the first 2 paragraphs.
Marcan is a genius, in every aspect. He is on my top list of people I could read all day long without getting annoyed.
Pretty much everything he posts on Twitter is interesting and curious. I'm a huge fan!
The other person I have similar feelings for is Geohot.
These guys are really, really smart.