Half a million in Canadian dollars? Is that like paying it out in monopoly money?
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Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
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#142Half a million in Canadian dollars? Is that like paying it out in monopoly money?
No
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#143The AM hack is similar in tenor to the Sony hack. Nothing about the hack has the feel of a lone wolf or black hat operation. I have no doubt someone will get pinned for the hack, but I also think if it wasn't an inside job it was state-sponsored.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
The future is a future where no semblance of privacy exists. In the year 3000: "Truth about the ugliness of the human race will finally be revealed when every single detail about anyone's life is public knowledge available to all."
I don't think so, I think it's just a matter of us learning where our prior ideas of privacy and what should and can be expected are meeting with the new reality. We can not legislate away capabilities that are fundamentally the same as what's existed previously, but have a greater effect because of the digital age, and expect those to hold[1]. Additionally, I increasingly think our interpretation of privacy has been…
You won't need CCTV. Many already carry around always-connected surveillance devices. Those devices will only grow in number and their capabilities increase.
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#146The aspect that a company who's business model resolves around people breaking contracts (marriage contracts) finding itself on the downside of what could of been an employee who broke their employment contract is something ironic.
Maybe we should not be calling those a hack and more a data-affair.
Still one can only hope that we gain some better protection and rights regarding how companies handle data and more so in the area of authority auditing that those rules and standards are maintained.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody asked you to intervene in their marriage, investigate their spouse, or enforce any laws -- adultery isn't even a crime in many places. You do not get to impose your morals on others. A stranger cheating on another stranger has nothing to do with you.
Clearly from the response we're seeing from society outside of this tech bubble where your privacy must be protected at all times otherwise doom ensues, people want to know when their spouse is cheating on them. You make an assumption that quite frankly ignores reality in favor of a weird moral relativism where any sort of judgment is bad. Odds are that people don't want their spouse cheating on them. Someone stealin…
From what I've seen, interest in the Ashley Madison leaks has been almost entirely prurient ("OMG look at this guy!"), which is a common human foible, but not something that's generally considered good to encourage. Many people also reacted positively to the theft of compromising photos from dozens of celebrities last year, for very similar reasons.
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#148My reaction is still mostly schadenfreude. If/when these people are caught, they should face the consequences of their actions but I'm not going to wrap paranoia over my own peccadillos in fake outrage over internet privacy. I'm opposed to people doing unauthorized things with other people's property on general principles. I'm far more concerned with the IRS's data breach because every victim was legally compelled to…
Agree. But if I understand correctly, the purpose of the hack was to take down a website that was ripping people off and, in the minds (if not experience) of the hacker(s), a scam.
In a way, it's not unlike Snowden's revelations. Yes, it was illegal. Yes, some people are embarrassed. But the intent, in the long run, is actually to protect those people.
And, regrettably, the fact that sex secrets were exposed is likely to alert much more of the population to the real dangers of privacy erosion than Snowden's revelations.
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#149I know it's a giant long shot, and the Zhu is not using his own IP/ISP, but could the FBI use the screenshot showing his desktop with Twitter, Youtube, Google and do an intersection of IPs on those services for the pattern that matches his use on those services ? The twitter user Zhu, who listened to Thunderstruck and went to Google within a time period.
edit: I'd like to have 1% of the $500k bounty wired in Dogecoins please
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure Krebs is in the game for the publicity, not the reward money. The publicity and "staying relevant" as a security researcher has a lot more value than a nebulous reward that likely will never pay out. Based on the typical wording when reward money is offered, I strongly suspect almost no reward money is ever paid out. It typically requires arrest and prosecution (often conviction) and there are plenty…
Krebs isn't a security researcher; he's a reporter.
My bad, same conclusion. ;-)