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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 Overtonwindow »

toofy wrote: post #19

I used to feel what you likely feel about paying for news—why would i pay for this when some other site will have it up for free or with ads, capitalism at work, competition driving the price down to reasonable levels, etc... Then I realized after seeing what has happened as the masses all came online, while many of us here can probably distinguish between a reliable news source and a hack site or a propaganda outlet…

I don’t pay for news. Ever.

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

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Post by hestipod »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #22

I don’t understand why he would brag about it online. Isn’t that just asking to be caught??

Don't underestimate the power of ego. For most people it's their most powerful driving force. I cannot speak to her motivations. There is more than one plausible reason someone would expose themselves IF she in fact did and wasn't set up. But people "own" themselves all the time despite how intuitively ridiculous it sounds from the armchair.

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

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Post by tvanantwerp »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #23
toofy wrote: post #19

I used to feel what you likely feel about paying for news—why would i pay for this when some other site will have it up for free or with ads, capitalism at work, competition driving the price down to reasonable levels, etc... Then I realized after seeing what has happened as the masses all came online, while many of us here can probably distinguish between a reliable news source and a hack site or a propaganda outlet…

I don’t pay for news. Ever.

I would pay to never see "news" again. Bombarded every day by meaningless trivialities wrapped in opinion. If something important happened that I needed to know about, I'd probably miss it for all the celebrity gossip and political posturing that actually makes the front page.

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

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Post by cgriswald »

toofy wrote: post #19

I used to feel what you likely feel about paying for news—why would i pay for this when some other site will have it up for free or with ads, capitalism at work, competition driving the price down to reasonable levels, etc... Then I realized after seeing what has happened as the masses all came online, while many of us here can probably distinguish between a reliable news source and a hack site or a propaganda outlet…

In the context of HN, I don't think that solves the problem. What are the odds that your 20 subscriptions and my 20 subscriptions will overlap? (To say nothing about excluding people who can't afford 20 subscriptions.) In order to have a meaningful discussion about a topic, we needn't necessarily have the same subscriptions. But to have a meaningful discussion about the article, we certainly both need access to the article.

Pay-per-article might make some sense, but every time I've seen that they've charged more than I think it's worth. They generally want about a dollar, and I'm thinking pennies. And, of course, I have to decide whether it's worth purchasing before I've read it; at which point it comes down to trusting the publisher - and then maybe I should just get a subscription.

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

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Post by Nicksil »

drenvuk wrote: post #26

So this guy is a crazy braggart. This isn't the first time this has happened. Some other guy was taunting the FBI and left metadata in one of his images when he posted to Twitter. It's best to not be loud in the first place.

> So this guy is a crazy braggart.

Clearly not a guy

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

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Post by th3iedkid »

izend wrote: post #12
dsr_ wrote: post #8

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.

This tweet alone seems to indicate she definitely did it... https://twitter.com/0xA3A97B6C/status/1151901325598187521

Isn’t all of that anyway in AWS docs ? Would something like this stand as an evidence to implicate her in US courts?
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