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Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Banks routinely hire hit-n-run contractors to manage systems will low level, uncontrolled, unaudited access to mind boggling resources and eye popping access to private customers info. Email porn? Child play.

Everything has to get decrypted at some point, right? I try not to think about what would happen if a Google employee decided to leak everyone's search history.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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The updated Yahoo Finance app is really slick, actually. It actually makes me wonder WTF happened to Google Finance? Why did they essentially abandon it? Charts just show up at the top of the results page but there's no dedicated site anymore.

The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.

Agreed, Google Finance is garbage. I talked with a Google recruiter and asked if there were any positions at Google Finance, and she thought I meant in the Finance department, not on that particular site. There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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What other service am I supposed to use as a permanent throwaway email account?

I realize you're posting this in jest, but I actually prefer AOL for this. They're one of the only major providers that will still let you sign up without providing a phone number. And, like Yahoo, I'm kindof amazed that they're still around.

Huh, I didn’t know most of the providers require a phone number now. Thanks for the info!

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The updated Yahoo Finance app is really slick, actually. It actually makes me wonder WTF happened to Google Finance? Why did they essentially abandon it? Charts just show up at the top of the results page but there's no dedicated site anymore.

The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.

Especially amazing since it used to be pretty good. The former codebase must have been an absolute mess for Google to throw it away in favor of the garbage that exists now.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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I had a YouTube employee login to my account, defaced my video titles and description. And Google wouldn’t do a thing about it. Don’t trust FAANGs and other ‘wangs’ with your private content !

I'm starting am engineering job at a FAANG in a few weeks. They already had me sign something agreeing to not do anything with the data of someone I know in the course of my work, told me access is monitored, not to make actual changes to people's accounts because hacking isn't distinguishable from admin changes by users, if something accidentally happens, notify a specific group so they can reach out to the user.

It feels like they take privacy really seriously, but at the end of the day, yes, employees do have access to your data, so before giving any company your unencrypted data, think hard about it.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.

Agreed, Google Finance is garbage. I talked with a Google recruiter and asked if there were any positions at Google Finance, and she thought I meant in the Finance department, not on that particular site. There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it.

> There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it

Does anyone know the inside ballgame on this one?

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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post #21
post #16

Banks routinely hire hit-n-run contractors to manage systems will low level, uncontrolled, unaudited access to mind boggling resources and eye popping access to private customers info. Email porn? Child play.

Everything has to get decrypted at some point, right? I try not to think about what would happen if a Google employee decided to leak everyone's search history.

It would be interesting to see if things people are embarrassed of became normalized over night. It'd probably just be awkward for a while tho.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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It's sobering to think about this in tandem with the fact that people in the IQ bracket for “engineer” tend to get away with crimes. Honestly, though, at least this can be turned into a concrete example to shoot down “if you don't have anything to hide...” and the like. The banal, lascivious panopticon elicits a real disgust response that might be moving, as opposed to the “shut up you alex jones weirdo” that sticks…

Just for the sake of feedback, I found your post confusing.

It's not really clear to me what you are saying exactly.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The updated Yahoo Finance app is really slick, actually. It actually makes me wonder WTF happened to Google Finance? Why did they essentially abandon it? Charts just show up at the top of the results page but there's no dedicated site anymore.

The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.

I was able to see it in autocomplete, so that's something:

https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW

You are right that simply typing "work" and hitting enter returns no results, though.

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