Worth noting that the CC in London operates for 15 years now. I’m sure there is a wealth of data that can be analysed, and I’m even more sure that there are a number of studies and papers that have explored its usefulness and positive/negative impact on traffic/economy/environment/public transportation.
There is definitely a portion of people that this applies to. However, I’d wager that the majority of the Cryptocurrency market capitalisation is from people that really want to become millionaires really fast.
“There’s a couple of good options (and this is not an exhaustive list) for pre-made tool VMs. Obviously you have Kali Linux for offensive tools and penetration testing, but you can also use Security Onion for the defensive side – intrusion detection and network security monitoring.”
If I'm not mistaken, he was comparing the stolen amount to the entire market cap of ETH (currently 19bil), to make it sound like it was a small amount.
I was about to comment something similar , but then I saw your post. Btw I don't know why people are down voting it.
This is an important point. This research comes after 10 days of the leak. I have been following the leak closely, I've even compiled a list with all the analysis and resources on a gist.
Good guys, bad guys, kids, bored Blackhats, had enough time to practically follow the step by step instructions in order to implant the backdoor. It doesn't take more than 30-40 mins for the first read till a successful exploit.
The short answer is that we have no idea of knowing how many of those were backdoored by the NSA.
Also worth noting is that the leak happened 3-4 months ago. A lot of people had access to this privately.
I’m confident that a significant portion of problems that ML is applied to today can be solved by some Excel sheets.