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NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by josteink »

sdegutis wrote: post #40
jamesbritt wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is like a 60 Minutes report on "hacking" where a guy from Symantec ran Windows Task Manager for a credulous Leslie Stahl and postured about how all that activity could be viruses.

Reminds me of VB GUI IP tracking[1] and double keyboarding[2]. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU [2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

Double keyboarding? That's certainly new to me.

Not sure I think HN should be a place to post memes like this all the time, but still: thanks for posting.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by fuzzix »

sdegutis wrote: post #40
jamesbritt wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is like a 60 Minutes report on "hacking" where a guy from Symantec ran Windows Task Manager for a credulous Leslie Stahl and postured about how all that activity could be viruses.

Reminds me of VB GUI IP tracking[1] and double keyboarding[2]. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU [2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

So this is what the pair programming experience is like!

I like to imagine the next scene is the two >1000 hacksaws explaining ssh, remote X and basic Cisco admin to the yank-happy cord monster.

Ever been on IRC? It's exciting stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

#93

Post by Semiapies »

mikeash wrote: post #83
supergauntlet wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, fuck those stupid gay people, there's no overlap between hacker and LGBT circles! Who cares about something that affects a part of our community, majority rules!

What part of that semi-coherent rant is supposed to make it OK to jump into every comment thread about Russia and post the same unrelated article?

Especially when the person doing so is trying to whitewash Russia's mistreatment of gay people...

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by smsm42 »

br78 wrote: post #86
smsm42 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many things I am sure they would agree on. Murder is bad. Theft is bad. I haven't read any positive thing in the press about murder or theft. Is it because they are all bought by anti-theft cabal or is it because they actually agree on it being bad? Maybe they just think Putin is bad and the preparation for Olympics was completely messed up. As for positive reports - news usually aren't positive. It always…

Murder is bad but was George Zimmerman justified? Is the death penalty just? Never underestimated the news media's ability to split the American public in half. News isn't usually positive, but what do you think the tone of this coverage is compared to the coverage of the London olympics? I personally strongly dislike the way gay people are treated in Russia and I am enjoying the drubbing they're getting from Western…

Maybe in London when you get a hotel room doorknobs do not fall off?

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

#95

Post by adobriyan »

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #33
NathanKP wrote: post #15

The longer version of the report shows more details: http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news-web-extra/honeypot-tes... On the phone they went to a website and ignored warnings in order to download and execute a malicious APK. On the PC they followed a link in a scammy looking phishing email to download and open a malicious Office document. On the Mac they visited a website that had an ad suggesting that they needed an…

But wait we can still stay on the #Sochiproblems bandwagon right?!

Remember when Georgia attacked Southern Osetia night before China Olympics?

Our western friends are more delicate this time.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by Shivetya »

NathanKP wrote: post #15

The longer version of the report shows more details: http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news-web-extra/honeypot-tes... On the phone they went to a website and ignored warnings in order to download and execute a malicious APK. On the PC they followed a link in a scammy looking phishing email to download and open a malicious Office document. On the Mac they visited a website that had an ad suggesting that they needed an…

I guess next is for some so called news organization to put toy rocket motors into pickup trucks and crash them?

On a side note, who still takes anything the big three networks push? Let alone lets not forget, Russia isn't politically correct so portraying them in a negative light is allowed if not desired.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

#98

Post by gadders »

osipov wrote: post #35
NathanKP wrote: post #15

The longer version of the report shows more details: http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news-web-extra/honeypot-tes... On the phone they went to a website and ignored warnings in order to download and execute a malicious APK. On the PC they followed a link in a scammy looking phishing email to download and open a malicious Office document. On the Mac they visited a website that had an ad suggesting that they needed an…

A bit offtopic but the recent "Russian anti-gay law" media coverage is as credible as this hacking story: http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Olympics_of_Hate_in_a_Nat...

I agree. Russia is the gayest country going. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/russia-just...

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

#100

Post by aquadrop »

smsm42 wrote: post #94
br78 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Murder is bad but was George Zimmerman justified? Is the death penalty just? Never underestimated the news media's ability to split the American public in half. News isn't usually positive, but what do you think the tone of this coverage is compared to the coverage of the London olympics? I personally strongly dislike the way gay people are treated in Russia and I am enjoying the drubbing they're getting from Western…

Maybe in London when you get a hotel room doorknobs do not fall off?

Or maybe they do, but nobody makes international issue from that?
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