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From the snippets of text I've seen in various articles, it just sounds like she was bored? I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent
by dawhizkid 7y ago
From the snippets of text I've seen in various articles, it just sounds like she was bored? I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent amount of money and decided to leave her job, had nothing to do all day and just posted at a Starbucks working on personal projects, which ended up including hacking into large corporations...?
Reminds me of my first manager, who was mid/late 30s and could've retired very comfortably long ago, and his primary motivation for working was because boredom, for him, would've been (in his words) a dangerous thing.
- OBLIQUE_PILLAR 7y ago"I imagine she had worked for a number of years and saved up a decent amount of money" This is incorrect.
- tinalumfoil 7y agoIs it paranoid to consider if this was a government actor? Boredom is plenty to keep someone from retiring, but digging into private customer data I'd think would take a pretty serious motivation. If I had the resources and wanted to wreck some havoc on the US economy data security (ie lack thereof) would certainly seem like a weak point worth prodding.
- mattnewton 7y agoI don’t think a government actor would put them on the same public github that is linked to their resume.. The only way I can see can see her being so smart and yet so dumb is if she didn’t think much of what she was doing.
- Scoundreller 7y agoProbably had moments of insight and lapses of insight at different times. It’s a roller-coaster that a lot of people can’t understand. Oh, and Capital One.
- ownagefool 7y agoPossibly just slowly lost it because of what they see is a terrible industry with terrible practices. The suicide vest comments suggests she knew what she was doing. Does she just want fame, or did she want to show them? Maybe not though.
- Scoundreller 7y agoOr knew what she did, but there was no going back.