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Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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FYI, the author uses it/she pronouns.

So it uses it/she pronouns? Usually the object pronoun is second; does that mean that it wants people to call she "it" unless they're doing something to she? That's off the chain, and sounds like meta-trolling.

It's legendary.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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I've seen owned plenty of times. "Owned a box" like that

yeah, "owned" came far before "pwned". Wiktionary cites this usenet post from 1996 https://groups.google.com/g/alt.sysadmin.recovery/c/IsdIZqfW... .. can't find an "earliest source" for "pwned" tho

"pwned" is from a late-90s StarCraft custom map where the map creator typo'd "owned" as "pwned" in a message that popped up when one player beat another.

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hactivism means hacking every unsecure jenkins instance for lulz?

No, just the ones where the result is a leak of information on some large government surveillance program, or, say, exposing incompetence of a company that sells security-related products - especially ones focused on "intellectual property". Not that there's anything wrong with lulz as a motivation from the perspective of old-time hacker ethos.

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Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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Who still uses Jenkins? It's an abomination of an obsolete system that is just a pain to use, manage, maintain, setup, etc. while there are much better, more featured, easier to use and maintain alternatives out there. And it has been like this for close to ten years now . It should have been ripped out in favour of either the "native" CI/CD (e.g. GitLab CI if GitLab is used for VCS, GitHub Actions if GitHub, etc.) o…

Is there an F/OSS alternative to Jenkins that I’m not aware of?

Tekton is a good option -- https://tekton.dev/docs/

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

#177

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.

No one's mentioned it yet and knowing the HN demographic I'm just gonna say: Turn on javascript for the cat.

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Apparently so, considering that this is the same person who got a hold of the No-Fly List a while back, and, you guessed it, they found it through Jenkins somehow.

So ... same attack vector, you implying crimew might be this anonymous 4chinz user? Intriguing...

Sorry, I might've phrased that poorly. I still stand with the fact that Jenkins (especially public-facing ones) are big security risks anyhow.

Re: Infosec company pwned by 4chan user

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A lot of the time when old things are still around, it's not because through all the years nobody has had the idea to replace them, but because the benefit of replacing them hasn't at any point in history outweighed the hassle. This is true for X11 and this is true for the QWERTY layout. The benefit of switching must outweigh the enormous hassle of doing so. It's easy to find something that's a little bit better, but…

X11 is finally, finally on the way out. I have a lot of gripes with Wayland, but the day I stop needing to dive into xrandr and figure out why the screen is rotated but the mouse coordinates aren't or some other 1990s level problem will be a happy one. QWERTY seems to be too embedded even for that, but I wonder if it gets closer to replacement the higher the percentage of software keyboards climbs vs physical ones.

> but the day I stop needing to dive into xrandr and figure out why the screen is rotated but the mouse coordinates aren't or some other 1990s level problem will be a happy one.

I'm sympathetic to wanting legacy mindhorrors replaced with modern stuff, but genuine question:

When do you ever have such problems xD

I've multimonitored on X11 for like 4 years and never experienced that.

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