Juan Andres Guerrero Saade (JAGS)

Hmm.

And.

I hear that kind of nonsense from students, right?

Like, you know, I hear this kind of, I'm like a lightning rod.

Anybody in this industry is a lightning rod for like DMs from people clearly having like schizophrenic episodes about like the government spying on me.

So you hear this kind of stuff all the time.

When you hear it from Vitaly, who's a very measured person, it makes you take pause.

You go, okay, what are you talking about?

What do you mean?

Think of it as like floating point math, like the really, really details-based, hard calculation stuff that most of the time you never deal with.

And I've never run into a piece of malware that does that.

Who is running high precision calculations back in 2005 doing something so interesting that it got somebody to build a super specific custom piece of malware to modify and mess with their workloads?

Everything about this thing screams special.

Like it screams unique.

It screams groundbreaking.

And I think what's most excruciating about it is that the mystery won't yield.

Like you're just kind of have to keep pushing and say, OK, why?

OK, I guess we're back to the trenches of like, OK, how do we nail this thing?

If Fast16 sees something happen on a computer...

then it goes, oh, I've recognized this thing.