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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 bin0 »

Nicksil wrote: post #29
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

Guy can be used in a gender-neutral sense, though it's not really good grammar. Most romance languages use male for a collective group; people often replicate this in English (though not always, as not all our words for groups carry gender). Some people then extend this back to the singular, i.e. "hey (many) guys" -> "hey (one) guy".

Edit: Down-votes care to comment why?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Nicksil wrote: post #29
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

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

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Post by bin0 »

Miss Thompson wins the Darwin Award for black hats. Seriously, she did a horrible job. Clearly a supremely over-confident script kiddie who went around talking about being such a 1337 h4x0r... until the cops showed up.

Serves her right, any way. You've got to be a pretty bad person to put the information of that many people at risk.

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

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Post by bin0 »

amyjess wrote: post #20
danso wrote: post #15

I was confused by this line in the affidavit (page 9): > An April 19, 2019, post in the Github account of "paige•••••thompson" includes a "Server List" of IP addresses associated with the account. What Github "post" could this be referring to? A README.md/issue/comment in which she for some reason posted the IP addresses she uses with that account? https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/press-release/file/1188626...

The first thing that comes to mind is a gist.

Correct. Some gists were still up yesterday when I looked (her github was down, though), and it seems she had a habit of posting logs of stuff, text snippets, etc. there.

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

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Post by matthoiland »

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…

This was the kick in the pants I needed to finally subscribe. Thanks.

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

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Post by tareqak »

hprotagonist wrote: post #3

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!

I agree: there is no such thing as "the perfect crime" and the use of end-to-end encryption does not make it so. What there is a however is a lack of good, old-fashioned police-work in criminal cases where the police run up against end-to-end encryption.

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

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Post by usmannk »

danso wrote: post #15

I was confused by this line in the affidavit (page 9): > An April 19, 2019, post in the Github account of "paige•••••thompson" includes a "Server List" of IP addresses associated with the account. What Github "post" could this be referring to? A README.md/issue/comment in which she for some reason posted the IP addresses she uses with that account? https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/press-release/file/1188626...

Probably these: https://gist.github.com/paigeadelethompson?direction=desc&so...

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

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Post by bin0 »

cgriswald wrote: post #28
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 a…

> What are the odds that your 20 subscriptions and my 20 subscriptions will overlap?

The odds that they will completely overlap are low. However, most people don't have 20. Even those who do mostly read a number of prominent sources: nyt, wapo, wsj are the big three for news these days. Most people subscribe to one, maybe two and read that. This is arguably bad for competition and bad for "indie journalism".

Also, I take issue with some of the points of view espoused by the nyt. Their news content is fairly good (if biased), but my subscription would also go to pay their editorial board. I don't want to purchase that news, because I don't want to fund its production. I wish I could buy a news-only subscription: no "lifestyle", no "fashion", no "editorial", etc. I don't want that stuff. Just news.

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

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Post by mieseratte »

Nicksil wrote: post #29
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

Say what you will about using the desired pronouns, Paige is extremely androgynous. Saying she is "Clearly not a guy" is inaccurate.
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