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Since (so far) nobody has been harmed, this is such a fascinating little story. It reminds me of the Adam Pisces episode of Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/s
by gkoberger 6y ago
Since (so far) nobody has been harmed, this is such a fascinating little story. It reminds me of the Adam Pisces episode of Reply All: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2 https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2
My best guess is it's just bored people with private collections, similar to how people were privately collecting and trading pictures off celebrities iClouds (before they were all leaked publicly).
- gwern 6y agoOr the recent Twitter hack: they hacked the most famous people in the world like Jeff Bezos, all because they were powered by people obsessed with getting, of all things, usernames like 'A' etc. Who would dare to write that up as a serious proposal for how computer security would work in 2020? And yet... (I take it as yet another example of Littlewood's law: https://ww.gwern.net/Littlewood https://ww.gwern.net/Littlewood )