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The person who did this calls themselves a hacker. It's just whoever wrote this article that decided to call them a "security researcher".

curiousllama 6y ago
I research what's behind your security, ergo, I'm a security researcher
jtbayly 6y ago
In other words, the media really is as liberal as is claimed by some? How does that change things? The article calls them security researchers. In the title! Isn't that an example of something that HN is tacitly acknowledging to be true by leaving the title alone?
- AnHonestComment 6y ago
  I’m shadowbanned for posting a video of the BLM founder calling herself a trained Marxist. HN is itself deeply biased towards certain ideological positions.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
  Things have changed in the last few days. I think what we're seeing is a form of information warfare specifically designed to trigger a strong response in people, either positive or negative. Additional interesting things: the DOSing of Tor v3, suppression of all Trumpian sites, the blackout of Pakistan, the massive volatility of monero.
- objectivetruth 6y ago
  > In other words, the media really is as liberal as is claimed by some? This seems like flame-bait trolling, unless the conservative cries about "liberal media" were referring to... cybernews.com this whole time?
- 35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago
  The article is essentially a copy/paste of a chain of screenshotted messages that'd been going around for a while. This sentence specifically: > With this type of access, newly minted users were able to get behind the login box API used for content delivery. That allowed them to see which users had moderator rights and this in turn allowed them to reset passwords of existing users with simple “forgot password” function. Since Twilio no longer authenticated emails, hackers were able to access admin accounts with ease. Compare to this comment[1] (linked from MeFi) posted this morning: > Well, because of that access, it gave them access to the behind the login box API that is used to deliver content (...) Subsequent posts also seem to indicate that post is incredibly inaccurate[2]. So it looks like someone mixed up "scraping a public API" with some breathless tale of hackers doing hacker things, and HN ate it up. [1]https://m.alpha.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10161497935914522/ https://m.alpha.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/1016... [2]https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the_heavily_upvoted_description_of_the_parler/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the...
- d23 6y ago
  I will never be able to trust the liberal cybernews.com again! If only I had ever heard of it.

curiousllama 6y ago

I research what's behind your security, ergo, I'm a security researcher

jtbayly 6y ago

In other words, the media really is as liberal as is claimed by some? How does that change things? The article calls them security researchers. In the title! Isn't that an example of something that HN is tacitly acknowledging to be true by leaving the title alone?

AnHonestComment 6y ago
I’m shadowbanned for posting a video of the BLM founder calling herself a trained Marxist. HN is itself deeply biased towards certain ideological positions.
TheAdamAndChe 6y ago
Things have changed in the last few days. I think what we're seeing is a form of information warfare specifically designed to trigger a strong response in people, either positive or negative. Additional interesting things: the DOSing of Tor v3, suppression of all Trumpian sites, the blackout of Pakistan, the massive volatility of monero.
objectivetruth 6y ago
> In other words, the media really is as liberal as is claimed by some? This seems like flame-bait trolling, unless the conservative cries about "liberal media" were referring to... cybernews.com this whole time?
35fbe7d3d5b9 6y ago
The article is essentially a copy/paste of a chain of screenshotted messages that'd been going around for a while. This sentence specifically: > With this type of access, newly minted users were able to get behind the login box API used for content delivery. That allowed them to see which users had moderator rights and this in turn allowed them to reset passwords of existing users with simple “forgot password” function. Since Twilio no longer authenticated emails, hackers were able to access admin accounts with ease. Compare to this comment[1] (linked from MeFi) posted this morning: > Well, because of that access, it gave them access to the behind the login box API that is used to deliver content (...) Subsequent posts also seem to indicate that post is incredibly inaccurate[2]. So it looks like someone mixed up "scraping a public API" with some breathless tale of hackers doing hacker things, and HN ate it up. [1]https://m.alpha.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/10161497935914522/ https://m.alpha.facebook.com/groups/majordomo/permalink/1016... [2]https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the_heavily_upvoted_description_of_the_parler/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParlerWatch/comments/kv0jo6/psa_the...
d23 6y ago
I will never be able to trust the liberal cybernews.com again! If only I had ever heard of it.