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Re: Dropbox is down

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Post by evan_ »

yeukhon wrote: post #54
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Apparently the website has been compromised: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421820685766250496 The hackers are also threatening a database leak: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421822727331131392 EDIT: Dropbox's statement is that it's maintainance issues: https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/01/dropbox-status-update/ EDIT2: There is a high probability that the Twitter account is faking the hack, due to the "proof" of…

Pathetic people spreading false news. We should shame them publicly. Anyone putting up false news is as guilty as, as shameful as, as fucked up as, as stupid as anyone sabotage security on purpose secretly. We have enough stupid political propaganda full of false statements in the news these days and we don't need more in our tech community on Twitter. What are they? 12 years old? Right, they say "don't feed the trol…

> We should shame them publicly

Don't give them any more attention.

Re: Dropbox is down

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Post by ballstothewalls »

rlu wrote: post #19

Either hackers took it down and Dropbox is lying on their status page, or Dropbox did routine maintenance and Anonymous is taking false credit. Unfortunately, I find option #1 to be more likely.

I find it humorous how you are more likely to trust the word of some blackhat organization over that of an established company with a reputation that it needs to uphold. Lying would hurt it eventually. Also, the hackers admitted that they only DDOS'ed the website and made up the bit about the database leak. https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421852503848656898

Re: Dropbox is down

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Post by citruspi »

infinitebattery wrote: post #50
citruspi wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, I'm not sure, and I definitely don't think it's some Aaron would have done.

Well, for one, Dropbox is claiming that it was not a hack at all. See: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/10/dropbox-offline-hacker-grou... and also see dropbox's blog post, explicitly stating that it "was caused during routine internal maintenance, and was not caused by external factors" https://tech.dropbox.com/

Yeah, I saw the article on TheNextWeb after posting my comment, but I figured I'd leave it up. Either way, I'm happy to hear that Drop Box wasn't compromised.

Re: Dropbox is down

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Post by citruspi »

0x20 wrote: post #44
citruspi wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They say they're doing it in honor of Aaron Swartz[0]. (It's the eve of his death). [0]: https://twitter.com/1775Sec/status/421831664239509504

Haha, seriously? Did you really have to use a "citation" for a twitter link in your 10 word comment?[0] Pretentious pseudo-scientific nonsense. Only on hacker news. [0]: No.

For what it's worth, I write most things in Markdown and I use reference style links[0] by default. So, I tend to do that in comments on Hacker News, but I omit the brackets which would go around the link "value," (i.e. the inner value of the a tag in HTML). Plus, by listing the links under the comment, I find that it's neater and easier to read. And by simply including the links (even if it's just for "a twitter link" in my "10 word comment") it saves other people time because they don't need to search for it themselves.

[0]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link

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