#julia ebner

Learn C.²²

Learn just a little bit of x86 assembler.²³ You don't have to be great at this at first, but you need to sort of kind of know what the fuck is going on.

Work through Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Erickson.

Learn JavaScript.

Go through the big exploit archives. Star in the 1990s. Look through exploits. Figure out how they worked. Turn the clock forward to the modern era, so you slowly accustom yourself to newer exploitation techniques.

Get really good at x86 assembler, and learn IDA Pro and OllyDbg.

22. C is a general-purpose, machine-independent programming language that was used to write a range of well-known applications – from Windows operating systems to Oracle databases.

23. x86 assembler is a programming language used for time-sensitive applications and detailed software systems.

You cannot get rid of everyone that gets into your way, and even if you could, that wouldn't be smart. No, it's best to beat your enemy without firing a single shot. This means you have to beat him with legal or at least semi-legal means. [. . .] Through demoralisation, subversion and infiltration. This means you need to undermine the morale of your opponent by spreading defeatism. For example, by saying this doesn't make any sense, this doesn't lead anywhere, just leave it. Ideally, in combination with smear, for instance by claiming that you work for the enemy. Then of course denigration, so that everything will be questioned, picked to pieces and decried. You sow discontent, impatience and doubt about the leadership. The word for this assault tactic is 'constructive criticism', a concept of the Frankfurt School. Then you try to pit members against one another, stir up disputes, create coteries, promote traitors and expel loyalists. Install levers to influence everything in your interest, outsource relevant structures, etc. And of course, spying, disinformation, lies, smear – the entire set of approaches. These are the tactics and mechanisms to sabotage and destroy a movement.