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Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by fragmede »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #384
fragmede wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An API is too much work. Grab the addresses for the top 100,000 YouTubers and sell that csv on the dark web.

What happens when the first to buy the CSV starts selling it themselves?

That’s not a new problem with selling info on dark web marketplaces. if you're interested in learning more, here are a couple of books you might enjoy:

"The Dark Net” – Jamie Bartlett “We Are Anonymous” – Parmy Olson “Future Crimes” – Marc Goodman “Kingpin” – Kevin Poulsen

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by rvba »

scarface_74 wrote: post #174
zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #123

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They could spin these products off into separate companies and cut the integration with the rest of the Google ecosystem.

Where is the profit for the individual product? There are a lot of services at every BigTech company that would not make sense as an individual product. But they make the overall ecosystem better or make money only because they are a part of the larger company. That’s part of the stupidity of the DOJ trying to force Google to sell Chrome. Who would want it? And how would they profit from it?

The firefox admin are making millions of dollars per year even if they make one bad decision after another (mostly focusing on acqusitions and new projects instead of actual work on their core product: firefox).

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

defrost wrote: post #409
SZJX wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the D/M/Y date format at the end of the article, they may not be native English speakers (at least they aren’t American).

The USofA is the bizarre exception here: The United States has a rather unique way of writing the date that is imitated in very few other countries (although Canada and Belize do also use the form). In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form. They don't use metric, still use First Past the Post voting, elect a mini monarch with effectively unchecked powers, ... it's an odd place.

Don't oversell the place. It also has it's down-sides.

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by selcuka »

turbonaut wrote: post #408
SZJX wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the D/M/Y date format at the end of the article, they may not be native English speakers (at least they aren’t American).

England is just one example of a country of native English speakers who use dd/mm/yyyy.

Australia, too.

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by autoexec »

vineyardmike wrote: post #302
vetrom wrote: post #296

I see a lot of noise made about responsible disclosure, its drivers, and its rewards. What I don't see is talk about how this is one more datapoint against centralized permanent identities. Every time I see a service purporting that it works best only with a single link to your Real Identity™, I'm reminded that the vendors only abstractly care about actually protecting the user, and then only sometimes. Imagine being…

> Every time I see a service purporting that it works best only with a single link to your Real Identity™, I'm reminded that the vendors only abstractly care about actually protecting the user, and then only sometimes. I abstractly agree with you. There is a level of obscurity and disposability that should be tolerated in these accounts. They’re just a row in a database somewhere anyways. That said, many people trans…

> While I don’t give random apps and websites my human-identifying information, anyone I do business with necessarily knows the real me, which is a theoretical point of data leaking.

Certainly not theoretical. You can be certain that nearly every company who knows your identity has leaked/sold it to others in one fashion or another.

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Post by kinematicgps99 »

OhMeadhbh wrote: post #413
defrost wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The USofA is the bizarre exception here: The United States has a rather unique way of writing the date that is imitated in very few other countries (although Canada and Belize do also use the form). In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form. They don't use metric, still use First Past the Post voting, elect a mini monarch with effectively unchecked powers, ... it's an odd place.

Don't oversell the place. It also has it's down-sides.

Mass shootings, out-of-control police, bankruptcies from for-profit healthcare and expensive medications, Bibles and Creationism in public schools, widespread ignorance about the world and just about everything, and millions (vastly undercounted) of homeless people.

But seriously, America is awesome for rich people if you don't mind living in a poor, third-world country that still believes it's a first-world, exceptional country.

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by fooker »

efitz wrote: post #381
fooker wrote: post #367

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> Most people have an intuitive sense to ask themselves questions like "If I do this, will someone be harmed How much time do you spend asking yourself whether your paycheck is coming from a source that causes harm? Or whether the code you have written will be used directly or indirectly to cause harm? Pretty much everyone in tech is responsible for great harm by this logic.

I actually think about it a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540862#42542151

Great, would you be surprised that most of us don't?

Most will just take the 500k paycheck and work at whatever the next big tech thing is.

There's some chance that thing is autonomous drones or something like that...

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

chrisweekly wrote: post #410
turbonaut wrote: post #408

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England is just one example of a country of native English speakers who use dd/mm/yyyy.

yyyy-mm-dd is the iso standard, w/ the benefits of logical consistency (larger to smaller units left to right) and -- best of all -- sortability.

Big-endian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by anilakar »

chrisweekly wrote: post #410
turbonaut wrote: post #408

Earlier quoted context omitted.

England is just one example of a country of native English speakers who use dd/mm/yyyy.

yyyy-mm-dd is the iso standard, w/ the benefits of logical consistency (larger to smaller units left to right) and -- best of all -- sortability.

In any case there are two sane ways to write dates, and the middle-endian format is not one of them.

Re: Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k

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Post by kinematicgps99 »

defrost wrote: post #409
SZJX wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the D/M/Y date format at the end of the article, they may not be native English speakers (at least they aren’t American).

The USofA is the bizarre exception here: The United States has a rather unique way of writing the date that is imitated in very few other countries (although Canada and Belize do also use the form). In America, the date is formally written in month/day/year form. They don't use metric, still use First Past the Post voting, elect a mini monarch with effectively unchecked powers, ... it's an odd place.

Also, the US military used/uses DDMMMYYYY format, i.e., 15JAN2025, where MMM is the month abbreviation, which is similar to one of the formats used in Romania. This has the benefits of unambiguous parsing and no need for component separators but lacks lexicographical sort-ability like ISO 8601. A format like YYYYMMMDD might some of the advantages of ISO 8601 by keeping items of the same year and month together at a minimum. (ISO 8601 is the most proper date format though. ;)
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