I don’t understand why he would brag about it online. Isn’t that just asking to be caught??
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Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#42So 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
Not so clearly.
Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#43“Honestly if I were president I would give her an immediate pardon. Either she is innocent and is being rather unsubtly framed, or she is guilty and no punishment can compare to the embarrassment of being caught like this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-30/tipster-s...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-30/beyond...
Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#44So 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
I don't feel the subject of the article is a woman. I don't care. The rest of my post still stands. Stop focusing on useless stuff.
Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
Plural 'guys' is increasingly gender neutral but that hasn't extended to the singular 'guy' at all.
Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#46I 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…
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20567021 and marked it off-topic.
Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#47It seems like she had mental problems. Hopefully she gets help instead of the gov't seeking retribution.
Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#48How 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.
Nyt needs to show a bit better restraint before I can consider funding them for 'good journalism'. I can and do subscribe to/fund what I find to be reliably good journalism.
Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#49Re: Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online
#50I 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.
Is it not meant damnable in us to be trumpeters of our unlawful intents?