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Ninth Circuit Reverses Probation Sentence for Paige Thompson: reason.com/volokh/2025/03/18/n

As with the recent case involving Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka "Pompompurin"), the appellate court found that the district court's time-served plus probation sentence for Paige Thompson was too significant a departure from federal sentencing guidelines. Although the court could properly consider factors such as being transgender and autistic, they shouldn't have ignored other sentencing factors so much.

#hack #CapitalOne #AWS #transgender #ASD

h/t, @campuscodi

Reason.com · Ninth Circuit Reverses Probation Sentence for Transgender HackerBy Eugene Volokh

Ransomware gang creates tool to automate VPN brute-force attacks

The Black Basta ransomware operation created an automated brute-forcing framework dubbed 'BRUTED' to breach edge networking devices like firewalls and VPNs.

🌐 bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

BleepingComputer · Ransomware gang creates tool to automate VPN brute-force attacksBy Bill Toulas

I was shocked when I saw that the #PlayFab #UnrealEngine plugin uses a TSharedPtr<UPlayFabAuthenticationContext>, where the UPlayFabAuthenticationContext is a UObject.

I always thought this to be impossible.

They use this #Hack to make it work:
- First create a TSharedRef<TStrongObjectPtr<UObject>>.
- Then use the aliasing constructor
TSharedPtr(TSharedPtr<OtherType>, ObjectType*) to create a new shared pointer using the Shared Reference as first, and the UObject as second parameter.
#GameDev