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Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online

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Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online

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Post by hprotagonist »

A fine example of why the push for encryption backdoors is wrong-footed: we can reliably trust people to be idiots online, regardless of intent or skill level.

good opsec is hard; middling opsec is reasonably easy; "not bragging about your mad sploits on twitter" is nothing we can trust humans to reasonably do, apparently!

Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online

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Post by kencausey »

yonaguska wrote: post #5
whenchamenia wrote: post #4

How are we getting past the NYT PayWall now?

disabling JS seems to work.

Yes, I use uMatrix to block everything but HTML (I enable other features site by site) and with nothing but HTML Reader mode in Firefox appears to give me the full article content.

Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online

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Post by dsr_ »

If we assume that Ms. Thompson is generally terrible at opsec, then presumably she is also terrible at offensive security, which leads to one of two conclusions:

Either:

A: She is being framed.

or

B: Capital One's security was (and probably still is) laughable.

She doesn't seem to be being framed. If Capital One's security is horrendous, they are unlikely to be exceptional... so we will see much more of this.

Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online

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Post by jakewins »

whenchamenia wrote: post #4

How are we getting past the NYT PayWall now?

We need to re-learn to pay for journalism. Well funded independent journalists is critical to a working society. If you can afford it, please consider taking the paywall as a cue to consider getting a subscription.
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