Thread by @TRUExDEMON

I truly wish more folks from the #infosec community took an active interest in our financial markets.

Many of us have been hacktivists, digital protesters, and advocates for change ever since we entered our first BBS board.

This is something we can understand...and change.

For those of you who are interested enough to read past the first tweet, I've been a pentester for going on 7 years, and have been obsessed with #hacking and #infosec ever since I was a teenager.

And I've felt more of a connection to people who think like that than anyone else.

For whatever reason, we seem to gravitate toward the idea of democratizing the internet and are huge advocates for freedom of speech, anti-censorship, and anti-authoritarian.

Somehow I have better relationships with nameless strangers on the internet than my family cuz of this.

Right now, there is an active rebellion playing out in the US financial markets that I'm sure most of you have heard about by now.

I also know many of you are probably rolling your eyes at the people who are making such a concerted effort to beat this system at its own game.

Many of you don't really take an interest in it. I know I didn't, at least not at first.

But somehow, I ended up getting wrapped up in a conspiracy that ended up proving that the financial markets are corrupt.

It's a notion to which most of us would answer, "duh"

What I've seen lately is that there might actually be an opportunity to do something about it for once.

Something impactful.

For all of the people (apes) who are part of this movement, I've seen that the smartest come from the tech sector.

And I have a feeling we can do more

Here is the concise timeline of what happened recently in the stock market relating to $GME (GameStop's) stock, and a brief history of what retail investors believed was happening.

The general consensus is that the stock was fraudulently shorted.

gmetimeline.com

If you were willing to bear with me long enough to read through that, thank you.

Even if you aren't interested in financial markets, I suspect you are interested in fairness and equal opportunity.

It is the belief that the financial markets are designs to undermine both.

Right now, the CEO of the world's largest market making firm, Citadel Securities LLC's Ken Griffin, is moving to sue anyone who says that he lied under oath before congress.

This is the story...

griffinlied.com

Citadel is using scare-tactics to target and muzzle any individuals who believe that Ken Griffin lied under oath to congress in order.

I'd like to tell him that he can go fuck himself. I'll say whatever I fucking please, and the evidence shows me that he lied under oath.

What I take issue with isn't that he lied, or that he is an elitist.

It is that he, just like all of his partners and counterparties on Wall Street never feel nor have they ever had to answer for their crimes and the strife they cause for average people.

And they revel in it.

Meanwhile, they punish average people when we stand up and point out when they have crossed a line.

The events surrounding how brokers took away the option to buy stocks for the entire retail class of investors is a never-before-seen blatant act of targeted fraud. It was wrong.

But worse, there are many who used insider information to get ahead of this decision, and used it as an opportunity to make money off a one-sided trade that would solely hurt retail investors.

And not a single person has been charged with a single crime for it.

Infosec professionals, I think, are uniquely suited to uncovering the fraud and bringing what has happened to light. So if you got this far, and you're interested, share this thread with some like-minded individuals, and let's do some work.

You should know how to find me. 😈