The Ultimate InfoSec Date Night: Netflix and Shellcode
Description
This is a bait-and-switch style meme that subverts the 'Netflix and chill' trope for a cybersecurity audience. At the center is a large-eyed, black-haired cartoon character pointing a gun at the viewer with a serious expression. The meme is overlaid with two lines of text. The top text reads, 'I lied i don't have Netflix'. The bottom text provides the punchline: 'Take off your shoes, we're gonna write some nerdy malwares'. The central character is surrounded by the covers of five highly technical and well-regarded books on cybersecurity and low-level programming: 'Practical Malware Analysis', 'Windows Kernel Programming', 'Hacking: The Art of Exploitation', 'The Shellcoder's Handbook', and 'Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering'. The humor comes from replacing a casual social invitation with an intense, niche, and collaborative technical activity. It's an in-joke for developers in the security field who would instantly recognize these books as foundational texts for serious hacking and malware development, making the proposed 'date' both absurdly nerdy and intimidating
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This is how you know it's true love: they don't just want to see your private keys, they want to co-author a kernel-level rootkit with you before the initial TCP handshake even times out
Nothing says romance like patching NtRaiseHardError on the first date so the BSOD doesn’t kill the mood
When you tell your date you're into 'protection' but they find out you meant stack canaries and ASLR, not what they expected. At least the kernel panic will be mutual when they see your bookshelf of exploitation manuals instead of Netflix recommendations
When your idea of a romantic evening involves shellcode instead of Netflix, and your date needs to sign an NDA before entering your home lab. Nothing says 'relationship goals' quite like debugging a buffer overflow at 2 AM while your partner reverse-engineers the Windows kernel. At least you both understand why the real foreplay is achieving arbitrary code execution with ASLR and DEP enabled
Our idea of ‘chill’ is spinning up an air‑gapped VM, turning off ASLR, and debating PatchGuard bypass via DKOM versus just shipping position‑independent shellcode
My ‘Netflix and chill’ is ‘PE headers and ASLR’ - we only pause to revert the VM snapshot after the unsigned driver bricks the box
Greybeards don't Netflix and chill - they GDB and spill ROP chains till 4AM
You don't seem to get it. She writes malware which is 95%+ for attacking windows, because linux is more secure. Comment deleted
Average Linux user installing suspicious software be like: oh this command needs to run with sudo, here you go, take my superuser privileges Comment deleted
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I thought it was because windows dominates commercial PC use for the sake of backwards compatibility for spreasheets from the 80s. Comment deleted
For the last 15-19 years (since about 2005) linux community claimed that linux desktop variants covered 90-95% of the needs of windows users. Nowadays all these got better and better, supposedly. Some people do switch from windows, but most of them - to the MacOS😁😁😁. Linux has stable 1% today. Why? Comment deleted
not 1, but almost 4 tho Comment deleted
Well that's a stable growth. 😁 Comment deleted
i mean, almost nobody learns linux in school/work (apart of the IT jobs) so it is stuck in this loop of people not knowing how to use it + almost no PCs have a usable linux distro pre-installed Comment deleted
pretty sure it's because there's still a large population of desktop users who's exposure to personal computing is first from work, school, or another institution that's running windows because of its establishment acceptance and get a home computer for its utility but aren't enough of a computing enthusiast to care about learning a second operating system. My guess for mac OS is because of it's institutional acceptance as an alternative in creative applications. The fact that you can do basically everything you could with either of those with linux doesn't get it over the hump of its reputation as a 'hacker OS' Comment deleted
Linux has that problem that as soon as something goes wrong or not working correctly- you are stuck with console and etc. Users don't like that Comment deleted
Also true, but I think that institutional relationships are more of a factor than that particular detail of the user familiarity issue. Comment deleted
i heard bsd kernel is better Comment deleted
The problem is it doesn’t matter which kernel is the best if it doesn’t support drivers what you want Comment deleted
What is windows and kernel Comment deleted
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"Normies" is a somewhat derogatory term used by people with mental health issues to describe normal people that are healthy in this aspect. So that alone does put linux in a questionable company. Now, about tty - being console centered OS doesn't mean that that is best way to do it. People like mice and graphical interface for a reason. Server OS for proffesionals that is one thing, user OS is an another thing and trying to shove command line in people throats will result in 4% of userbase Comment deleted
Self proclaimed intellectual supremacy of the console people. Comment deleted