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Extracting terabytes of data is difficult to go un-noticed. How do you transfer the data? rsync through external network is too slow. The most convenient way
by didip 16y ago
Extracting terabytes of data is difficult to go un-noticed.
How do you transfer the data? rsync through external network is too slow.
The most convenient way would be to mount physical drive on one of database server and copy things directly. But that would require cage access, which I assume not many employees have.
- yannk 16y agoThat's an excellent interview question! "How do you get the maximum of data out before getting noticed?". I guess the most effective way is to tamper with source code and smuggle data out along with legitimate traffic.
- didip 16y agoTampering the source code is an interesting idea. I think it cannot be the PHP code because that's peer-reviewed by 1000+ employees daily. It would have to be code rarely seen by others, e.g. Apache's mod_rewrite.
- khafra 16y agoOr you could simply produce a php version of a winning entry to the Underhanded C Contest: http://underhanded.xcott.com/ http://underhanded.xcott.com/
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- zeemonkee 16y agoYou don't need to extract the whole lot. "Thousands of random users' data has been downloaded from Facebook and published on Wikileaks" would be enough for a good media scare story.