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TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew > In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the United States on criminal charges related to her alleged hacking activity between 2019 and 2021. The charges were unrelated to the hack of Verkada. Her home and her parents' home were raided by the Swiss police at the request of United States authorities, and her electronic devices were seized. People used…
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Are you asking, what purpose was there in bringing the hammer of the American Justice Department and down onto a random grey hat hacker? The same as always: enforce rigid authoritarianism and blind bureaucratic SOP. Remember kids, clicking the "next page" button on court document websites is legal, doing it with javascript is a felony, off to jail with you, join the rapists and murderers!
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Don't all sorts of person-related details come in handy to stage a social engineering hack? Maybe a caller could demonstrate legitimacy by coughing up a passport number. At this point, it may impress me more than someone having found my SSN (_love you for that, Equifax_). Yet, SSN is still by many institutions considered something that should be stored in the vault.
>Don't all sorts of person-related details come in handy to stage a social engineering hack? Maybe? But also maybe not really? Passport numbers change very frequently, nobody uses them to identify people.
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew > In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the United States on criminal charges related to her alleged hacking activity between 2019 and 2021. The charges were unrelated to the hack of Verkada. Her home and her parents' home were raided by the Swiss police at the request of United States authorities, and her electronic devices were seized. People used…
How such supposedly talented hacker end up to be doxxed? It's not that hard to become 99.99% anonymous online...
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The laws around digital access to networks are archaic and very broad, they were mostly defined in the 80s and 90s. I believe any unauthorized access (i.e. not having consent from the owner/operator) to a private network is technically a crime. Even if the Jenkins server was open, I bet finding and using the S3 credentials would have crossed the line of the law. Those S3 buckets are private and if you didn't have per…
Regards the archaic laws I'm not convinced, they tend to just parallel real world crimes. For example if you parallel it to the real world then the crime of trespass covers the Jenkins server situation (you can trespass on land that is open and easy to access) and you still commit a crime if you enter a house where you found the key on the floor outside the door, which covers the S3 situation.
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This is downvoted, but the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though, as there are some connotations with that :-/
Why do we only get to choose our pronouns? I want to choose my prepositions: in, up and above. Also, my conjunctions are: however, moreover, and whereupon.
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Are you asking, what purpose was there in bringing the hammer of the American Justice Department and down onto a random grey hat hacker? The same as always: enforce rigid authoritarianism and blind bureaucratic SOP. Remember kids, clicking the "next page" button on court document websites is legal, doing it with javascript is a felony, off to jail with you, join the rapists and murderers!
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How such supposedly talented hacker end up to be doxxed? It's not that hard to become 99.99% anonymous online...
No doxxing was necessary, Tillie did it all publically, publishing on a home server, making announcements on Telegram under their real name. I don't quite get it either, but they specifically didn't want to hide in (pseudo)anonymity.
I don't agree with most of her more radical views and find her methods to be too extreme, but she clearly stood behind them and didn't hide