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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by phlakaton »

echelon wrote: post #551
WorldMaker wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Useful to note that Prime Gaming has been doing the exact same strategy (for longer), backfilling users' catalogs by throwing a lot of money in games giveaways. Once the games have been added to your Amazon/Twitch today you can download an EXE installer from a hard to find Amazon page or use a really bland "Twitch Launcher" app that clearly is the first stage towards "Vapor" or whatever the final brand would be. For…

It ought to be illegal for a 100B+ market cap company to operate in this way. They can just pour money at the problem until the incumbents shrivel up and die. Hyper fucking bad behavior that leaves the true innovators and people that care out in the cold. On the other hand, it should be possible for consumers to claim products they own on different platforms by peering a list of their their owned (licensed) products.

Tech companies engaging in monopolistic practices to destroy competition? You don't say.

It happened to me. If you're in the industry long enough, I'll wager it happens to you too.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by rsynnott »

monkeybutton wrote: post #482
Arathorn wrote: post #89

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IBM weren't the only people to play that game. The codename for the SGI Indigo was also Eclipse, for similar reasons, iirc.

And where do explorers like to go? On safaris.

And if you're an explorer, you should probably also be a good Navigator.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by farmerstan »

slightwinder wrote: post #477
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #269

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I don't really get this. My phone number is apparently already known by every scammer and spammer on earth, which is why I never answer calls from people I don't know, so what am I losing? Meanwhile, Twitch has had a significant bot spamming problem.

> I don't really get this. My phone number is apparently already known by every scammer and spammer on earth, which is why I never answer calls from people I don't know, so what am I losing? The only scammers who know my number are my phone-provider and my mom. Other scammers either never call me, or just don't know the number. Protecting your number is possible. > Meanwhile, Twitch has had a significant bot spamming…

Anyone who has your number in their contact list might have uploaded their entire contact list.

It literally takes only one person who has your number to reveal your number.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by yawaworht1978 »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #337

Hi ya'll, I have a question. My wife and I can't wrap our brains around the fact that payment info was leaked alongside source code . Any theories how this happened? Former pentester btw. I saw a lot of interesting things during my time, but I can't recall seeing a payment database next to a source code repo. Did their s3 bucket get popped or something? Even if their github enterprise got popped, that doesn't explain…

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/10/6/22712365/twi...

They say hacked

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

asdfasgasdgasdg wrote: post #585
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #555

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To me upper class means you don't work.

So Bezos is middle class then? Questionably useful definition imo.

I think more accurately, it means you either have enough wealth that you don't have to work to maintain your lifestyle, or your income is high enough to support extravagance without going deep into debt.

Bezos doesn't have to work. To be honest, I don't know why he still does. Personally, if the stock options at the startup I work with end up panning out to be worth $5M or more if/when they go public in a few years, I'm taking that cash and retiring at 45. Throwing it into an S&P500 index, I could live off the interest for the rest of my life.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by [deleted] »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #579
zthrowaway wrote: post #578

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There’s a very large nearly endless supply of laborers that can do this type of work though. The more niche your skill set the higher you can demand in pay. This is economics 101. You are putting this into a moral space that doesn’t reflect economic realities.

So? There are so many economic realities which we explicitly disallow. Monopolies, for example. Why should this exploitation be allowed to go on?

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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

RNCTX wrote: post #583
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #555

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To me upper class means you don't work.

No, upper class means you profit from underpaying other people for their work.

Snarky, but I don't think you're wrong.

People are generally paid based on how hard they are to replace, not by how much profit they generate. But in some markets, this results in people making terrible wages while the company makes tons of money, ie, Wal-mart and basically all the major fast food chains.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by acoard »

rvnx wrote: post #411
wizzairflyer wrote: post #396

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I'm very curious to have a peek but isn't downloading stolen material a crime? And wouldn't this be compounded by the fact that with torrent systems you are also helping redistributing it further?

The fact that you are uploader (e.g. distributing the content) while downloading a torrent seems to me to be the biggest risk.

Correct, but this is the same legal exposure of uploading any copyrighted material (eg songs, movies).

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by WorldMaker »

echelon wrote: post #551
WorldMaker wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Useful to note that Prime Gaming has been doing the exact same strategy (for longer), backfilling users' catalogs by throwing a lot of money in games giveaways. Once the games have been added to your Amazon/Twitch today you can download an EXE installer from a hard to find Amazon page or use a really bland "Twitch Launcher" app that clearly is the first stage towards "Vapor" or whatever the final brand would be. For…

It ought to be illegal for a 100B+ market cap company to operate in this way. They can just pour money at the problem until the incumbents shrivel up and die. Hyper fucking bad behavior that leaves the true innovators and people that care out in the cold. On the other hand, it should be possible for consumers to claim products they own on different platforms by peering a list of their their owned (licensed) products.

The early 20th century put a lot of Monopoly and Trust Busting laws on the books that say some of this is illegal, not just "ought to be". What we've lost since then hasn't seemed to be the laws themselves but the willpower to regulate in the spirit of those laws and executive power to enforce those laws.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by kevinsundar »

unclekev wrote: post #561
kevinsundar wrote: post #535

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Hardcoded database creds in code. Saw a post earlier with credentials to an rds instance. It said there were more examples. EDIT Found it again: https://sizeof.cat/post/twitch-leaks/#secrets-exposed

You need to open that link incognito. (If clicking through from HN) The site you linked to detects if the referrer url is HN and instead displays only an image saying "HACKER NEWS - A DDoS MADE OF FINANCE-OBSESSED MAN-CHILDREN AND BROGRAMMERS" instead of the content you are trying to link too. OK Then...

My bad, didn't do that on Safari. Maybe some sort of tracking protection.
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