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Plenty of Fish Hacked

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Re: Plenty of Fish Hacked

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Post by mahmud »

nandemo wrote: post #69
mahmud wrote: post #57

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Mate, before you milk that 'interview' for eye-balls, just go back to the PoF article above and read the new comments. Chris Russo is there commenting, and it calls your ability to judge character into question. For starters, he has never denied the story about Russians holding his computer hostage and threatening to kill him. He just ignored it. Then he goes for the "race" card and says PoF are suspicious of his int…

Wait, so if I post here that mahmud is on the yakuza payroll and has kidnapped my puppies then people are supposed to believe it until you deny it?

They were triads, not yakuza.

I believe the PoF guy simply because he has more to lose. You can already see this Russo character writing his own "If I Did It"[1] account of the tale. Looks like his attempt at getting a gig backfired.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Did_It

Re: Plenty of Fish Hacked

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Post by elliottcarlson »

jacquesm wrote: post #39
silvestrov wrote: post #31

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The upside is that the NemID system gets the average citizen to a point where his/her family (and close friends) are the largest security problem. It is much more difficult for hackers in Argentina and Russia to get into your bank account when they need access to a piece of paper. If is impossible to protect against your own family: the have hardware access to your computer, they can intercept all your paper mail, th…

If there is one thing I would like it would be the option to specifically authorize a set of IP addresses allowed to access my bank account rather than the implicit way it is done right now.

Chase bank requires me to authenticate via a texted or emailed code if I log in to my bank via a browser I haven't used before. Not exactly the same, but a helpful additional precaution.

Re: Plenty of Fish Hacked

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Post by [deleted] »

notahacker wrote: post #89
StormN wrote: post #83

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A key point here is that he didn't use a proxy and doesn't seem to hide his identity during the sniffing around, which means he's either: a) stupid. b) not intending to do anything malicious. I think a. is unlikely, because he did actually manage to break in, although, the hole itself might've been trivial and therefore this might not count. I don't think so, though. Which leaves b.

I think it's pretty obvious from both sides of the story that what Chris intended to do was (c) demonstrate the existence of a vulnerability in order to hard-sell his security consultancy. Reading between the lines, it looks like his sales tactics were heavy on the FUD (he pointedly hasn't denied making any claims about Russian conspiracies), leaving Frind paranoid and angry. And probably also embarrassed if the secu…

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Re: Plenty of Fish Hacked

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Post by mikecolella »

StormN wrote: post #79
gaius wrote: post #30

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POF is entirely funded by ads from paid-for dating sites. It's a weird business model, but it seems lucrative.

No, it's not. They have a large(ish) self-serve advertising platform like FB with various levels of targeting.

A huge percentage of the ads served on the self serve platform are affiliates promoting other dating sites.
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