Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:14 AM UTC

Nzen wrote: post #48

duxup wrote: post #28

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Just for the sake of feedback, I found your post confusing. It's not really clear to me what you are saying exactly.

Presumably, this person is airing frustration with common responses to privacy oriented discussions he or she has experienced as participant and/or vicariously. He or she has characterized them ending in ad homenims, whereby the privacy minded individual is construed as politically or intellectually unmoored, similar to Alex Jones. Spedru posits the covert and exposed deviants within companies, that we've exchanged o…

Post by xuki » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

glandium wrote: post #59

tennessee5 wrote: post #33

Chris Putnam, who used to work at Facebook, did almost exactly the same thing with videos.

Wait, what? I knew the part where he wormed Facebook and eventually got hired, but I didn't know that. Do you have a source? I only was able to find the part I already know about.

Post by PavlovsCat » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:20 AM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #45

spedru wrote: post #3

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…

Let me try to rephrase this in a simpler way: This is even more troubling because smart people are less likely to be caught. At least, like Snowden's leaks, this is proof that privacy extremists aren't conspiracy nuts, and hopefully it will open a few eyes to the real danger of giving up privacy. Other comments are right: stop using big words and write plain sentences.

Post by oyebenny » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 5:36 AM UTC

raz32dust wrote: post #50

End-to-end encryption is the only foolproof was of preventing this. But if that is not possible, training and audit/alerts is the next best thing. Training is important because new employees or new college grads might not be aware of truly how egregious it is to view someone's personal data. It really had to be drilled into the culture. By audits and alerts, I mean that if one employee accesses sensitive information,…

Post by natch » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 6:05 AM UTC

mikeyouse wrote: post #20

tempsy wrote: post #10

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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.