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Someone working at Techcrunch isn't qualified for their job.

by coderdude 17y ago

staunch 17y ago
That may be true, but unless you have some inside knowledge of the situation you can't know that.
- coderdude 17y ago
  They get hacked twice in a row, day after day has become the new routine. Someone there is totally doing their job you think?
  - pavs 17y ago
    Getting hacked twice in short time doesn't automatically mean incompetence. There could be literal dozens ways of entry - including all the third party javascript services they run. Also we don't even know if the attack was done using a 0day exploit. A sign of incompetence would be if they had their whole database wiped out and they did'nt have any backup (ala codinghorror.com) or they got hacked exactly the same way 1 month from now. Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. 48 hours is not a long time. Twitter gets hacked more often than this. They very well could be incompetent, but you are judging too soon.
    - coderdude 17y ago
      You've made some good points there. I must admit I agree. I'm being too hasty with my judgment here.
    - riffraff 17y ago
      >Twitter gets hacked more often than this. Really? I can remember only twice, in a bout a year, although admittedly I was not paying much attention
    - sid- 17y ago
      Well I dont know whether have lost any data, but a link on the main page is broken - http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-case/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-ca...
    - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
      twitter gets hacked more than this? source ?
      - oscardelben 17y ago
        techcrunch is usually a good source for everything that happens in twitter, including hacks
    - JoachimSchipper 17y ago
      > Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. Because, you know, restoring from a backup is the same as securing a site, right? And there's no way that a hacker could do worse things? Because infecting some visitors or something similar wouldn't hurt their reputation? Sorry for the outburst, but this happens way too often.
CalmQuiet 17y ago
Since there still seems to be a debate about exactly what weakness was exploited, that conclusion is unwarranted. For that matter, a truly thorough cracker (with more time than constructiveness) might go to the trouble to identify more than one weak point, hold some in reserve, and exploit them sequentially over time - either to offer a more depressing experience to the site owner or to discredit the site's technical team [taking advantage of people willing to jump to your conclusion :) ]
- coderdude 17y ago
  If there is more than one weak point, do they even need "conclusion-jumpers" to discredit their technical team? Assuming of course that it's not more than one 0day.

Someone working at Techcrunch isn't qualified for their job.

staunch 17y ago

That may be true, but unless you have some inside knowledge of the situation you can't know that.

coderdude 17y ago
They get hacked twice in a row, day after day has become the new routine. Someone there is totally doing their job you think?
- pavs 17y ago
  Getting hacked twice in short time doesn't automatically mean incompetence. There could be literal dozens ways of entry - including all the third party javascript services they run. Also we don't even know if the attack was done using a 0day exploit. A sign of incompetence would be if they had their whole database wiped out and they did'nt have any backup (ala codinghorror.com) or they got hacked exactly the same way 1 month from now. Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. 48 hours is not a long time. Twitter gets hacked more often than this. They very well could be incompetent, but you are judging too soon.
  - coderdude 17y ago
    You've made some good points there. I must admit I agree. I'm being too hasty with my judgment here.
  - riffraff 17y ago
    >Twitter gets hacked more often than this. Really? I can remember only twice, in a bout a year, although admittedly I was not paying much attention
  - sid- 17y ago
    Well I dont know whether have lost any data, but a link on the main page is broken - http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-case/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/ipad-touch-sensitive-ca...
  - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
    twitter gets hacked more than this? source ?
    - oscardelben 17y ago
      techcrunch is usually a good source for everything that happens in twitter, including hacks
  - JoachimSchipper 17y ago
    > Getting hacked 2 days in a row only means they couldn't find the weakness yet. Because, you know, restoring from a backup is the same as securing a site, right? And there's no way that a hacker could do worse things? Because infecting some visitors or something similar wouldn't hurt their reputation? Sorry for the outburst, but this happens way too often.

CalmQuiet 17y ago

Since there still seems to be a debate about exactly what weakness was exploited, that conclusion is unwarranted. For that matter, a truly thorough cracker (with more time than constructiveness) might go to the trouble to identify more than one weak point, hold some in reserve, and exploit them sequentially over time - either to offer a more depressing experience to the site owner or to discredit the site's technical team [taking advantage of people willing to jump to your conclusion :) ]

coderdude 17y ago
If there is more than one weak point, do they even need "conclusion-jumpers" to discredit their technical team? Assuming of course that it's not more than one 0day.