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I believe this is meant to show that it is a targeted attack on the project lead: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Arathorn https://news.ycombinator.com/us
by cjslep 8y ago
I believe this is meant to show that it is a targeted attack on the project lead:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Arathorn https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Arathorn
Unfortunately I don't have any background context for possible reasons why "actual transparency" on the top line is the issue chosen by the attacker, but makes it seem ideologically driven.
- JD557 8y agoI don't think that this is a targeted attack. Seems more like a way of showing "I got access to 5493973 passwords and to show that, instead of picking some random users, I'll pick the one responsible for the shoddy security".
- saagarjha 8y agoOr it might be a clear, concise way of showing that he has access to the entire file without disclosing the information of random users, which also happens to be a particularly short command.
- erikbye 8y agoAs for motivation I don't know, but I would like to state that I have followed the Matrix project for some time and have found it, and the CEO, to be transparent.