Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, July 11th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the famous stock market player Bernard Baruchuch once said paraphrasing.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdue.

When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still makes four.

The main purpose of the market is to make fools of as

many people as possible. Today, stories of this lesson being learned by both

major VC firms and Elon Musk. Oh and how North Korean hackers infiltrate companies. Here's what

you miss in the world of tech over the last few days.

Hey everybody, back from vacation as planned but still on day six of my COVID

journey so not exactly as planned I guess more on that at the end of the show

But hey, it's also a summer Monday a mere week after the 4th of July so there's not a lot of what you would call breaking news this morning.

The top of tech meme right now is about a trove of more than 124,000 Uber documents

that the Guardian uncovered from the Travis Kalanik days of roughly 2013 to 2017, revealing management discussions and

lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion, but I kind of feel like

that's old news.

There's not really new stuff in there even if some of the details are new. We get it.

Uber was a messy, ugly elbow throwing company in those days. I've got a link to the Guardian piece in the show notes if you really want to read it for yourself.

But since there's not a lot of meaningful timely news this morning, and since I have to tend to my family in our COVID

isolation, still, I thought what I do this morning would be to give you a couple of interesting analyses pieces real quick and then devote the second half of the show to a breakdown fully of the whole Elon

Twitter situation and then come back at you tomorrow at the usual time for usual news, newsy news so

analysis item number one ever wonder how North Korean spies infiltrate US firms in order to do those big hacks

we've seen over the last few years well it's sort of what you might expect. They do it by posing as remote workers, and they've turned their efforts to the crypto industry recently, as we've seen. The UN says that the country has stolen billions of dollars worth of crypto from exchanges using this simple bit of social engineering recently

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