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How do you define "hacker"? This site changed its name from "Startup News" to "Hacker News" [0], but I don't think it signaled a complete shift in userbase and
by danso 7y ago
How do you define "hacker"? This site changed its name from "Startup News" to "Hacker News" [0], but I don't think it signaled a complete shift in userbase and topics.
In any case, the article says the person "changed the password for and stole items from Roblox users". Would you say it's wrong for those users to describe their accounts as being "hacked"?
edit: moreover, no matter the method of intrusion, it shows how basic/non-existent the auditing and access-control is for a system that services 100 million active monthly users, which is most definitely the kind of security issue that traditional technical hacks reveal.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080220095541/https://www.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080220095541/https://www.ycomb...