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Not going to lie but this sounds far more entertaining than sitting at my dining room all day making computer programs.
by antihero 6y ago
Not going to lie but this sounds far more entertaining than sitting at my dining room all day making computer programs.
- kinduff 6y agoI lol'd. Sometimes when I read these kind of stories, including phishing and hacking ones, there's this tiny inner evil in me that wants to do bad things, but then I remember consequences and that being good usually pays off.
- 1-more 6y agoSome very sketchy back of a napkin in my head math says that my fake email job[1] amounts to pulling off multiple boat heists every year without the intervention of the authorities (whether legitimate or—more problematic—illegitimate). I'm getting away with a lot here. [1] https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1341031553078448131?s=20 https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1341031553078448131?s=20
- nabeards 6y agoThe Imp of the Perverse, of course.
- temp8964 6y agoIn a broader sense, they can be considered as hackers.
- kubanczyk 6y agoMaking business harder for tourists and renting places is neither cool nor "hacking".
- ryandrake 6y agoIt just means maybe there is a market for boat rental pen-testing and security consultancies. There are probably lots of similar vulns in the rental business's process, which can be demonstrated by white hats and corrected. In this case, it was the business incorrectly trusting the thieves' story and foolishly delivering a product they had no way to repossess.
- temp8964 6y agoWhat? Don't some computer hackers also make business harder for regular users? Maybe you have a very different definition of hacker.