Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”

Post by sukilot » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 11:59 PM UTC

harry8 wrote: post #31

chroem- wrote: post #24

Russia was caught running ads during the 2016 election that were sympathetic to radical white and black nationalist groups, with the end goal of sowing racial tensions. [0] I'm of the firm belief that we're being played by a hostile state actor here. I have no way of proving this, but I strongly suspect that Russia and/or China are trying to spur on the unrest through digital disinformation like in the OP. EDIT: by u…

From overseas this looks like someone abjectly refusing to face it's countries problems. I don't think Russia or any other nation could possibly have anything more than the most minimal effect on what happens when you have an underclass, who have just lost their jobs on mass and with it their health insurance looking at whether Bezos who pays no tax is going to become a trilionaire while the disease of police brutali…

Post by willcipriano » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

genghisjahn wrote: post #11

raverbashing wrote: post #10

Most often, when the media/pr announces a "sophisticated cyber attack" has happened, what actually has happened is that the password was "123456" or the site ran an old WordPress version, etc

Example?

Post by vimslayer » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 1:37 AM UTC

didntknowyou wrote: post #58

tialaramex wrote: post #49

> it's extremely unusual to see the same email address with multiple different passwords in a legitimate data breach as most systems simply won't let an address register more than once I've actually built a system which did this years ago, over our initial protestations, and the reasoning went like this: Our client (this was a white label product) has lots of elderly couples as customers, these are our end users and…

shopify has a similar thing, a two stage login where you sign in with your email then choose your account.

Post by itsnotlupus » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 2:57 AM UTC

sukilot wrote: post #55

tialaramex wrote: post #49

> it's extremely unusual to see the same email address with multiple different passwords in a legitimate data breach as most systems simply won't let an address register more than once I've actually built a system which did this years ago, over our initial protestations, and the reasoning went like this: Our client (this was a white label product) has lots of elderly couples as customers, these are our end users and…

Amazon did this for a long time. I don't know if they still do.

Post by boomboomsubban » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 4:42 AM UTC

bravo22 wrote: post #64

boomboomsubban wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luckily it's only those "fringe elements" that are getting tear gassed, attacked with rubber bullets and batons, or being arrested. As both the media and the government have stated they are the problem.

The fringe elements are blending into the crowds. The poor protestors are getting gassed. Let's not create this narrative that the majority of protestors are out to loot and damage property. They're not. And most of the ones who are causing damage aren't black.