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Indeed they are: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/breitbart-other-cons...
Interesting. Thanks for the source.
Also, Rush Limbaugh hates Musk (he has the #1 talk show since 1987... Since record-keeping began, so a lot of people are exposed to that negativity)
I can not believe Joe Sullivan would just sit there during this. There has to be so much more to this story. I can not imagine he would be on board with negotiating with the hacker, and cannot imagine him sitting idly for a year after the cover up.
A lot more will likely leak out now. Iceberg tip located.
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Speaking of politics, media influence and tech, a fair number of average joes have a terrible opinion of Musk/Tesla/SpaceX; but these same people are unaware, or maybe vaguely aware the US Gov spent >10billion, just in direct financial losses, bailing out GM. If everyone in the country was told "write a check to GM for $50 or go to jail," and conservative media wasn't berating Tesla/Musk, public opinion would be a lo…
This is news to me, I've never come across an average person having a negative opinion of Musk. On the contrary they think of him as some iron-man like figure.
Personally, I like him quite a bit, but to be fair I know that outside of my own echo chamber of my news and social media feeds, that there are a lot of people who don't like him, and where that negativity is coming from.
So this was willful. Expect many more exits.
The CSO was able to arrange for $100K to be paid out without any oversight of what that money was for? If it was paid to hackers it's unlikely that finance cut a check. I'm imagining this was paid in bitcoin or similar. How was this able to be approved? I'm guessing someone created a fake invoice? Wouldn't that constitute fraud?
IIRC Uber has had a very large bug bounty program with substantial payouts. It seems possible this was billed under the guise of a bounty.
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I mean they don't say how they accessed the GitHub repo or whether there was a vulnerability in Github itself that allowed access
I assume it was password reuse from one of their engineers or something similar. If you could compromise GitHub itself there would probably be higher value targets (source code for upcoming AAA games, Coinbase, government organizations, etc.)
> Two hackers had stolen data about the company’s riders and drivers — including phone numbers, email addresses and names — from a third-party server, putting the personal data of more than 57 million people at risk. The hackers approached Uber and demanded $100,000 to delete their copy of the data [...].
> Uber acquiesced to the demands. Under the orders of Travis Kalanick, who was then its chief executive, and Joe Sullivan, the chief security officer, the company paid the ransom.
> Then Uber went further. The company tracked down the hackers and pushed them to sign nondisclosure agreements [...]. To further conceal the damage, Uber executives also made it appear as if the payout had been part of a “bug bounty” [...].
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I recall a story (that I'll probably recount incorrectly) about a daycare business deciding that too many parents were arriving late to pick up their children (meaning that staff had to stay late with the kids), so they instituted a fine for late pickups. The result was that more parents were late. The reason being that the parents effectively considered the fine a "late pickup fee", and one they were more than willi…
Well, day care operators have since learned... ... as I sit in my home office, just over an hour away from day care closing time I assure you I'm watching the clock like a hungry hawk watching a mouse. See, my kid's day care charges a mere $600 per hour late (billed in 1 minute increments). I don't see kids parents late that often :-) and we've come close to missing it, but haven't in two years.
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Does anybody have a link to a good source on this? I'm behind on this myself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/technology/travis-kalanic... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/02/2... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/06/uber-fire... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-28/in-video-... https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/08/uber-federal-investigati... http://abcnews.go.com/US/uber-allowe…
Funny, they opened a satellite office right near my apartment and I'd considered applying. Then I heard pretty disconcerting stuff about the environment, and now this. Dodged a bullet, I guess.