Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by snowy » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 12:17 PM UTC

Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession
krebsonsecurity.com

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by yardie » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 12:55 PM UTC

I wonder how much of his personal information was gleaned from "respectable" American companies like Lexis-Nexis, Equifax, and Transperian? I'm sure they gave everything and medical history for the price of a few coins. I have no respect for companies that don't respect my privacy. And I make it a habit of giving them as much useless, inaccurate information as possible.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by chisleu » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 12:58 PM UTC

yardie wrote: post #2

I wonder how much of his personal information was gleaned from "respectable" American companies like Lexis-Nexis, Equifax, and Transperian? I'm sure they gave everything and medical history for the price of a few coins. I have no respect for companies that don't respect my privacy. And I make it a habit of giving them as much useless, inaccurate information as possible.

Who do you mean by "his"?

Also, Krebs is a hell of a guy.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by srbby » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

chisleu wrote: post #3

yardie wrote: post #2

I wonder how much of his personal information was gleaned from "respectable" American companies like Lexis-Nexis, Equifax, and Transperian? I'm sure they gave everything and medical history for the price of a few coins. I have no respect for companies that don't respect my privacy. And I make it a habit of giving them as much useless, inaccurate information as possible.

Who do you mean by "his"? Also, Krebs is a hell of a guy.

A hell of a guy who doxes people he doesn't like on Twitter.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by brodsky » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 1:08 PM UTC

I'm not sure it's possible to "give" inaccurate information to Equifax.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by Craighead » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 1:09 PM UTC

srbby wrote: post #4

chisleu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who do you mean by "his"? Also, Krebs is a hell of a guy.

A hell of a guy who doxes people he doesn't like on Twitter.

A statement devoid of context intended for shock value is better off not said.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by jchw » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 1:09 PM UTC

srbby wrote: post #4

chisleu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who do you mean by "his"? Also, Krebs is a hell of a guy.

A hell of a guy who doxes people he doesn't like on Twitter.

This is a bad hill to die on. There are two sides to that story.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by brodsky » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 1:10 PM UTC

brodsky wrote: post #5

I'm not sure it's possible to "give" inaccurate information to Equifax.

this was meant as a reply to yardie's comment, but my HN client won't let me edit or delete it.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by darkwater » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 1:11 PM UTC

Ouch, Poggioreale is not a nice place to be in.

Re: Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

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Post by coldcode » Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 1:17 PM UTC

It's interesting that the "hacker" himself was caught via hackery. When I worked on anti-cheating stuff for a game company, I was able to stop the seller of the cheat because their cheat had been stolen and resold so they had to put anti cheating tech in their cheating tech and it opened a hole I was able to exploit to detect them.