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But they is plural, so wouldn't the author technically need to say "he or she" for each occurrence? Sadly, English has no singular gender neutral pronoun.
They can be used singular. Most people use it without thinking about it in conversation.
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I agree "they"/"them" sounds cleaner than "he or she"/"him or her" but isn't it officially incorrect? I do like that Facebook has started using "they"/"them".
Why would it be incorrect? Now it could be against style guides for an organization, but that is something of an arbitrary decision.
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Yeah, true. Most authors seem to like to assume male, though. :(
No, many authors just use the default pronoun, which happens to be male. I don't like it. But that's a defect in English. They/Them is less precise. Using "her" actually apparently attracts attention away from the content. Perhaps mixing both within a longer body of text is a more subtle way.
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Hi, thanks for your comment. It wasn't really my objective to find the smoking gun and bring Huthos' operation crumbling to the ground. Like you, I don't definitively know that the operators of the website are the same people that broke into my honeypot without permission. It seems more likely than another totally-unrelated bad guy knowing where the file paths are to the Huthos provisioning scripts when directory lis…
Agreed - after doing a little more digging myself, it does seem likely that they are selling access to hacked machines - however, I'm sure there are other cases of attackers using legitimate scripts to provision their servers! Also - has anyone seen how cheaply access is being sold for!? It's pennies!
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Agreed - after doing a little more digging myself, it does seem likely that they are selling access to hacked machines - however, I'm sure there are other cases of attackers using legitimate scripts to provision their servers! Also - has anyone seen how cheaply access is being sold for!? It's pennies!
Legitimate scripts that take a screenshot of your desktop every time you run bash?
echo "screenfetch" >> .bashrc
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Agreed - after doing a little more digging myself, it does seem likely that they are selling access to hacked machines - however, I'm sure there are other cases of attackers using legitimate scripts to provision their servers! Also - has anyone seen how cheaply access is being sold for!? It's pennies!
Legitimate scripts that take a screenshot of your desktop every time you run bash?
Guess the intruder wasn't completely convinced that chmod works the first time around
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They can be used singular. Most people use it without thinking about it in conversation.
Only people who don't mind sounding ignorant.