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What brave extortionists - $4.5 million for themselves and also the api changes. Like a modern day Robin Hood, their honor is unassailable.
by monero-xmr 3y ago
What brave extortionists - $4.5 million for themselves and also the api changes. Like a modern day Robin Hood, their honor is unassailable.
- Semaphor 3y agoWell, there was a limited time offer for just the 4.5 million! What a steal that would have been!
- _8j50 3y agoThe common thing they say these days is that they "helped" you find a vulnerability by breaking in and that's their pentest fee.
- Aaargh20318 3y agoThey didn't steal the data, it was a surprise off-site backup.
- ransomwarebtxh 3y ago[flagged]
- chii 3y agoI mean, if you're gonna extort somebody, you might as well force them to do some good as well.
- lr4444lr 3y agoDon't you think they perhaps just considered that making a pro forma altruistic sounding demand on top of the venal one would put public pressure on their target to comply and make themselves merely look like Robin Hood?
- ImaCake 3y agoYes, that's pretty much the point of the demand for rollback of the API changes. Its pretty transparent that they want the money, but they clearly have thought of your line too.
- bnt 3y ago$4.5 mil with this inflation in this economy is peanuts.
- Gualdrapo 3y agoI'll gladly take $4.5 mil from whoever feels like they don't need them, as I really really do.
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- paxys 3y agoGoes pretty far in Russia
- heywhatupboys 3y agoyea let's surely blame Russia out of the blue without a shred of evidence! Don't you have a Die Hard movie to write?
- mcphage 3y agoCan I have some peanuts, please?
- leononame 3y agoMeh, they openly said they would've taken just the money and kept silent while also warning ahead of time that they'd ask for the API changes in addition to the money publicly if reddit wouldn't comply. So they basically admitted that it's about the money for them - doesn't feel like they tout themselves als modern day Robin Hood.
- flangola7 3y agoConsider it a $4.5m asshole tax.
- xtracto 3y agoRemind me of the great quote I read somewhere: "hackers are technical debt collectors " For all you Businesspeople reading this: this is how much that tech debt the Engineering team has been talking about has costed.
- yanderekko 3y ago"No bad tactics, only bad targets". The only thing the activists would condemn here would be if Huffman were seriously assaulted on the street, or his family being harassed (although it seems like nowadays close adult relatives/associates who fail to denounce a cancellation target become fair game as well.) Anything else - legal or otherwise - would be filed under "actions having consequences". This is sadly the norm for social media activism in 2023. spez needs to accept that he's lost his membership in Quite frankly, this is a good PR move, although I would assume that it's still better to maintain a low profile. Still, I'm sure a lot of people are hoping for more events like this to occur in order to punish Reddit.