I think getting a clear picture about what it is about yourself that needs work is actually a lot of the real work. Much of the rest of it is picking a direction and then living in that direction.
Make a few mini game versions, eg rooms of 20, everyone has 10 seconds to write something, 5 seconds to vote in which goes in, person with most voted-in things wins the round and/or gets to set the base pic for the new room. Rotating or random themes for the sorts of things you can suggest, edit wars where teams have to get something edited towards their end-state goal, while the other team is promoted edits for something else.
A bunch of game modes like this, freemium ad supported where paid versions or in game currency lets you setup custom games, private rooms, “super prompt” power where your prompt gets 2x the weigh.
theres a btc address in the about page if anyone wants to donate some btc for compute or email if someone at a cloud provider wants to donate some inference :)
I hope you're talking about the original The Jackal. That's a great movie that has fascinated me essentially because of the theme you've identified. A truly motivated, highly-intelligent person could commit horrendous acts without detection. So far, whoever committed this assassination has succeeded; but I suspect, there is simply too much surveillance in 2025 to get away with it.
edit: regarding the surveillance issue, wonder what the retention on google earth/maps logs is for the location of the shooting?
Allow me to speculate massively. Hiss sounds more like weak signal acquisition. Perhaps in this case, Mitnick was interfering but not defeating encryption.
A bit more from the book (which is a great read, and available in it's entirety on archive.org):
"To enable its agents to communicate over greater distances, the government had installed “repeaters” at high elevations to relay the signals.
The agents’ radios transmitted on one frequency and received on another; the repeaters had an input frequency to receive the agents’
transmissions, and an output frequency that the agents listened on. When I wanted to know if an agent was nearby, I simply monitored the signal
strength on the repeater’s input frequency.
That setup enabled me to play a little game. Whenever I heard any hiss of communication..."
Properly encrypted data is indistinguishable from random noise - aka ‘hiss’. If really good encrytion, it will be white noise (generally). Albeit will have more power.
If there is a clear pattern to it, then that’s either unencrypted framing, or bad encryption. (Think 90’s cable TV ‘scrambling’).
Not really true on modern digital radio systems. They are AES-256, but the voice frames are encrypted right after the vocoder does its thing, then the voice data is dropped into the stream just as if it were clear voice. It's all wrapped in the same same digital protocol (like P25 or numerous others), so the signal is very distinct in that encrypted and clear communications both sound the same to someone listening to the raw audio.
Yes, but the interference was exactly the point. He didn't have to break the encryption in the sense of cryptanalysis or finding the key, he just had to make them think it was malfunctioning so they'd switch it off and he could listen at will
Gates actually wrote about the photo in a blog post he wrote after Allen passed away. [1]
> The first time I saw how passionate Paul could get about something, I was in 8th grade. This picture might make you think he was my teacher, but he was actually a sophomore, just a little less than three years older than me.
> This teletype is the thing that brought us together. Our school, Lakeside, held a rummage sale and used the proceeds to buy a teletype terminal. We were obsessed with it. The problem was, it was really expensive to use – 40 dollars an hour! The only way for us to get computer time was by exploiting a bug in the system.
