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Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by mlyle »

waboremo wrote: post #61
morkalork wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They were born in 1999, so it's more like what a new generation's impression of what the old web was like.

You don't really have to know what specific year they were born in, the refusal to capitalize is a dead giveaway they did not experience that time at all. Anybody of that time period would be embarrassed to do so on a public site. Kind of funny how we carry these different meanings to mostly meaningless things.

I had an all-lowercase website for a couple years on the early web. So did many of my friends. Archive.org snapshots are 2000-2001, but they'd been around before that in many iterations.

Gah.. it's all embarrassing to look back on for other reasons...

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #36
alexjplant wrote: post #6

This page reminds me of the old web. I kind of miss it, auto-playing MIDI songs and custom cursors and all. I'll take that over having to wade through Reddit 12 times out of 10.

As the creator was born in 1999, it's interesting to me because she's nostalgic for a period she did not fully experience. It's something I did, and it's neat yet strange to see it being done to a part of my past.

I'm not a lot older than her and have a similar fondness for that æsthetic. While it's true I didn't fully experience it, a lot of late 90's sites were still online, more or less untouched, in the late 2000's, so they were there to be appreciated even though they were a relic by then. At that time, IE stagnation was still a thing, and MIDI playback was still in browsers, so the 2008 experience of a 1998 site was probably fairly authentic.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by thegeomaster »

c7DJTLrn wrote: post #47

I suspect this leak was made by the author themselves and submitted to 4chan via Tor or a VPN. I don't have hard evidence to back this up but if you read the Wikipedia article about them, it's pretty easy to put two and two together.

The readme of the leak contains "meow :3", and the author's website is strongly cat-themed. Doesn't prove anything, but an interesting coincidence.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by flangola7 »

c7DJTLrn wrote: post #47

I suspect this leak was made by the author themselves and submitted to 4chan via Tor or a VPN. I don't have hard evidence to back this up but if you read the Wikipedia article about them, it's pretty easy to put two and two together.

4chan blocks Tor and VPNs

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by waboremo »

bink wrote: post #70
waboremo wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't really have to know what specific year they were born in, the refusal to capitalize is a dead giveaway they did not experience that time at all. Anybody of that time period would be embarrassed to do so on a public site. Kind of funny how we carry these different meanings to mostly meaningless things.

Making advisories hard to read has been a thing since forever. Remember Gobbles? https://github.com/thinkitdata/GOBBLES/blob/master/advisorie...

Very true, trends after all come and go.

Specifically about this style though, I feel it fits right into the blog series about "domestic cozy"[1]. It aims to be exactly that, imply super casual/low effort tone, make it feel a bit more personal, and simultaneously about ignoring social traditions that feel redundant to them. Like all trends, it takes effort to follow, and part of this is encouraging friends to turn off auto-capitalization on your phone.

So I would say it's a bit more than just trying to make something hard to read, and focusing on that bit might make you miss the rest of their storytelling process!

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/domestic-cozy/

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by [deleted] »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #74
reocha wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maia is very honest when she hacks a company, unsupported theories don't help anyone.

Their antics have been of questionable legality, and I would assume they'd try to avoid drawing too much attention, given that this is the 3rd US-based company they're trying to hack, and the US just might ask for an extradition. Further, the conclusion about Jenkins being the attack vector is drawn without much thought or explanation, and it is also interesting that they've used the same attack vector elsewhere.

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Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by waboremo »

mlyle wrote: post #81
waboremo wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't really have to know what specific year they were born in, the refusal to capitalize is a dead giveaway they did not experience that time at all. Anybody of that time period would be embarrassed to do so on a public site. Kind of funny how we carry these different meanings to mostly meaningless things.

I had an all-lowercase website for a couple years on the early web. So did many of my friends. Archive.org snapshots are 2000-2001, but they'd been around before that in many iterations. Gah.. it's all embarrassing to look back on for other reasons...

Don't be shy, bring it back, you're ahead of the curve!

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by cool_dude85 »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #74
reocha wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maia is very honest when she hacks a company, unsupported theories don't help anyone.

Their antics have been of questionable legality, and I would assume they'd try to avoid drawing too much attention, given that this is the 3rd US-based company they're trying to hack, and the US just might ask for an extradition. Further, the conclusion about Jenkins being the attack vector is drawn without much thought or explanation, and it is also interesting that they've used the same attack vector elsewhere.

It says in the wiki entry that Switzerland does not extradite citizens unless they consent to it. She is probably already not able to leave Switzerland due to her US indictment.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Post by boomboomsubban »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #82
boomboomsubban wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the creator was born in 1999, it's interesting to me because she's nostalgic for a period she did not fully experience. It's something I did, and it's neat yet strange to see it being done to a part of my past.

I'm not a lot older than her and have a similar fondness for that æsthetic. While it's true I didn't fully experience it, a lot of late 90's sites were still online, more or less untouched, in the late 2000's, so they were there to be appreciated even though they were a relic by then. At that time, IE stagnation was still a thing, and MIDI playback was still in browsers, so the 2008 experience of a 1998 site was prob…

Similar to how I did not experience the late 70's but gained a fondness for it by watching "Taxi" and listening to Television.
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