4 ms·
Not to say the FBI didn't get hacked, but the filename "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" is very strange to me. It's almost exactly what I would pick if I were mak
by rubidium 14y ago
Not to say the FBI didn't get hacked, but the filename "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" is very strange to me.
It's almost exactly what I would pick if I were making up a filename to incriminate the FBI/NCFTA. However, it seem's much too long for a usual filename. Especially the "intel" part: if you work for the FBI, everything about your job is intel. Why would you put it in the filename?
- tarice 14y agoThere's just not enough information contained in the filename to be able to suggest anything. People have different naming conventions. Maybe Christopher likes his filenames to be precise. Who knows.
- Nelson69 14y agoBecause putting "topsecret" in the file name seems even more childish? It's an interesting double tap kind of announcement, hacking an FBI lapper seems like a pretty big win in and of itself, because he had java in his browser and went to a contaminated website... All very topical stuff. If you were disgruntled and made off with that kind of data from a carrier or Apple or perhaps even an app vendor, how would you put it out to screw them? Clearly the data is real. It leaked out from somewhere. I think some other aspects around it are just window dressing though.
- kintamanimatt 14y agoFor some reason I originally interpreted it as being a reference to Intel the chip manufacturer, but in retrospect that wouldn't make a lot of sense.
- dwd 14y agoShould also have had spaces not underscores. Regular Windows users don't follow *nix naming conventions.
- aasarava 14y agoSure they do, if they've been using computers since the DOS days.
- niels_olson 14y agoYou clearly don't hang out with a lot of old Windows users. its all 8LETTERS.txt or "Lots of Letters & stuff.doc" but never, ever conforms to a consistent convention. I'm pretty sure an exuberant Anon declared this was "intel".
- ommunist 14y agoAnd perhaps because of that, they are still using computers the DOS ways.
- Natsu 14y agoWhen I read that, I thought "intel" referred to the company, rather than being short for "intelligence." Then again, it's not capitalized, so maybe I'm mistaken. One other comment has me thinking, though. If it's fake, can you go to jail for just pretending to hack the FBI if they never really did it?