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Am I the only one who thinks the story is a little too perfect and ridiculous? It is much more likely that the author simply fabricated the story. He did manage to start a very popular thread, and get a ton of people with really high rep to respond AND get a link on HN. He just threw out some bait, and the community swarmed like starving fish.
Am I the only one who thinks the story is a little too perfect and ridiculous? It is much more likely that the author simply fabricated the story. He did manage to start a very popular thread, and get a ton of people with really high rep to respond AND get a link on HN. He just threw out some bait, and the community swarmed like starving fish.
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Then again, it could be a social engineer trying to play off the commonly-held belief that an actual social engineer wouldn't ask for something so blatantly illegal.
You think too much. Usually, the simplest explanation is also the correct one. I put my money on retarded auditor who thinks he's more clever and powerful than he is.
Am I the only one who thinks the story is a little too perfect and ridiculous? It is much more likely that the author simply fabricated the story. He did manage to start a very popular thread, and get a ton of people with really high rep to respond AND get a link on HN. He just threw out some bait, and the community swarmed like starving fish.
And he gains what, exactly, from doing this? Posting anonymously, he doesn't get any credit from posting the story.
The modern currency for trolls is "lulz".
Definitely seems less like a auditor (I believe asking for some of that is flat out illegal) and more like a hacker posing as a auditor, trying to get passwords/creditcard #'s.
It's a private key after all.
I flagged this. The likely explanation is that this is just a troll -- 2-day-old account, this is the only question that's been asked on it. There's no way that somebody that's been doing audits for 10 years would ask for this stuff, and there's no way any server admin would even consider providing the information. ...At least, any server admin that shouldn't be yoinked back down to making patch cables.
I flagged this. The likely explanation is that this is just a troll -- 2-day-old account, this is the only question that's been asked on it. There's no way that somebody that's been doing audits for 10 years would ask for this stuff, and there's no way any server admin would even consider providing the information. ...At least, any server admin that shouldn't be yoinked back down to making patch cables.
I flagged this. The likely explanation is that this is just a troll -- 2-day-old account, this is the only question that's been asked on it. There's no way that somebody that's been doing audits for 10 years would ask for this stuff, and there's no way any server admin would even consider providing the information. ...At least, any server admin that shouldn't be yoinked back down to making patch cables.
It's a throwaway account. It has "throwaway" in its name. The question ends with the asker explaining that he's posting it from a throwaway account because he doesn't want his real name associated with it. How many questions would you expect a throwaway account to have?
It's still a troll.
Maybe the poster is writing a book on cracking systems? Who knows. But it smells like a hoax.