>came less than a week after FireEye disclosed that foreign government hackers had broken into its network and stolen the company's own hacking tools
Lulz, isn't this much easier than making them?
>Just go after bullshit programmers
Isn't that how that 'Twitter /toolkit/s' binary hit the net?
>SO WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING?
Fucked around…found out
>WHO THE FUCK IS HACKING ALL OUR COMPUTERS?
Definitely NOT whoever they state that it is. Systems around the entire globe are pwn'd. You can target a viri for a specific country. When pwn'd…you can make any attack look like it came from there.
>WHY ARE WE ALL RUNNING THIS GLOWIE PACKAGE ON NEARLY EVERY COMPUTER?
Sp00k niggers gonna sp00k. They designed our infrastructure to be penetrable…but…'just by them'.
>WHO SIGNED OFF?
Obama
Who is solarwinds?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarWinds
>SolarWinds released its first products, Trace Route and Ping Sweep, earlier in March 1998
>Trace Route
>tracert
Wow. I did snot nose that they made tracert.
>During 2007, SolarWinds raised funding from Austin Ventures, Bain Capital, and Insight Venture Partners.[13][14] SolarWinds completed an initial public offering of $112.5 million in May 2009
>During 2007 | in May 2009
Who was in orfice then? Was is…obongo?
>The IPO from SolarWinds was followed by another from OpenTable (an online restaurant-reservation service)
This is actually YUGE almost every restaurant runs off of OpenTable if not…it's Aloha
>In May 2013, SolarWinds announced plans to invest in an operations hub in Salt Lake City, Utah
>Salt Lake City, Utah
>Utah
Hmmmm…wonder what else is out in…UTAH? Not somthing actually?
>In October 2015, the company disclosed that it was in talks with an unnamed party interested in acquiring and again making SolarWinds private
>In October 2015, the company disclosed that it was in talks with an unnamed party
>(((unnamed party)))
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>The acquisition by private equity technology investment firms Silver Lake Partners and Thoma Bravo, LLC. was announced in late 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Lake_(investment_firm)
>Silver Lake is a global private equity firm focused on investments in technology, technology-enabled and related industries. Founded in 1999, the firm is one of the largest technology investors in the world. Its investment holdings have included Airbnb, Alibaba Group, Ancestry.com, Broadcom, Credit Karma, City Football Group, Dell Technologies, Endeavor, Expedia Group, Fanatics, First Advantage, Global Blue, GoDaddy, Jio, Lightbox, Motorola Solutions, NortonLifeLock, Red Ventures, Sabre Corporation, Skype, SoFi, GLG, Seagate Technology, SolarWinds, TEG, Twitter, Unity, Waymo, Weld North Education, WP Engine, Vacasa and ZPG. Silver Lake is headquartered in Silicon Valley, and has offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong.
>and…Honk Kong
>CCP
They own…everything. They own twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoma_Bravo
>Thoma Bravo, LP, is an American private equity and growth capital firm headquartered in Chicago with an additional office in San Francisco.
>Thoma Bravo has done 230 software deals worth over $68 billion since 2003 and oversees a portfolio of 38 software companies that generate some $12 billion in annual revenue and employ 40,000 people.[2] In October 2019, Forbes estimated the value of the firm, which is owned entirely by Orlando Bravo and a handful of his partners, at $7 billion.[2] In January 2019, Thoma Bravo was managing private equity funds representing over $30 billion in equity commitments.[3] Thoma Bravo is the successor to the firm Golder Thoma & Co., which was established in 1980 by Stanley Golder and Carl Thoma.