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by jdong 12y ago
All "finestsquad" seems to have done is doxed various people the lizardsquad twitter has followed over time, I doubt they're stupid enough to follow themselves.
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by jdong 12y ago
What's there to back up the legitimacy of the information released by these guys? It just looks like they're tweeting out random IPs from zeustracker.
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by jdong 12y ago
>Yet what does every single news outlet do? What they're supposed to? This is after all, news. You don't drop a story because you think someone is a cunt.
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by jdong 12y ago
>but on the other hand it's likely most or all of them will be arrested in the not-so-distant future People have been saying this for 3-4 months now.
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3000 new Tor nodes on Google IPs all named LizardNSA[0-9]+ just popped up(torstatus.blutmagie.de)
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by jdong 12y ago
Thing is, you have to draw a line somewhere. Essentially he was exploiting a vulnerability in JSTOR to mass download court documents, what if he was downloading credit cards instead? Or some sort of corporate secrets? (Sure, credit cards an
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by jdong 12y ago
Thing is, I'm not his shrink. I don't know everything that was going on inside his head, that's my best guess based on my daily chats with him on IRC.
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by jdong 12y ago
Aaron did what he did knowing the consequences, my best guess is that at some point after he started regretting his decision. This is how the world works, if you make a bad decision you'll have to live with it... Or not.
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by jdong 12y ago
I don't think technological illiteracy plays a large part here, Aaron exploited a flaw in JSTORs ratelimiting system and continued doing so after being blocked several times by JSTOR administration. After that didn't work out he b
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by jdong 12y ago
a) Sure, he was facing a possible "5 years" (most likely much less) and was well aware of that. b) Debatable, a prison sentence of a few years definitely wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary c) You make it sound like ther
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by jdong 12y ago
You probably mean 6 months or less, because that was the prosecution offer. And yeah, I think that was actually a pretty good deal. Although I would agree that in a perfect world the material he took would already have been public.
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by jdong 12y ago
You're ignoring the other charges he had, the prosecution offered him an AMAZING deal. You can't just not prosecute people because they're depressed.
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by jdong 12y ago
Aaron was a good friend of mine, I know quite a bit about this case. a) No he wasn't, this is a common misconception by people who don't understand how the US court system works. b) Aaron had a good deal, the indisputable breaking
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by jdong 12y ago
Sure, but there really doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the law here. Aaron wasn't even convicted of anything.
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by jdong 12y ago
What makes this case such a big deal? Swartz did something that was obviously illegal and got caught.
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by jdong 12y ago
Not sure about that either, but trying to blame Home Depot for fundamental flaws of the system isn't productive either. You should blame the card design for allowing this, not the people that accept cards.
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by jdong 12y ago
Sure, but the only real solution would be not accepting cards. Does that sound like a good solution to you?
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by jdong 12y ago
It's a step in the right direction, but the current implementations of EMV cards wouldn't have been of any help here.
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by jdong 12y ago
Except that information can be used online...
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by jdong 12y ago
You'd have a really hard time arguing those as damages in court. And then you'd have an even harder time arguing that it was in fact Home Depot that was responsible.
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by jdong 12y ago
Card processors might have a case, but the customers really mostly wouldn't. The PAN that belongs to your credit card company that was assigned to you by your credit card company was compromised and someone tried to defraud your credit
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by jdong 12y ago
No, you really don't need the printed CVV for that. And several cards have actually had the CVV on the chip. Also, in many cases the chips actually contain enough information to replicate the magnetic stripe. (Which is well, bad.)
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by jdong 12y ago
A lawsuit which you would lose. Especially considering you most likely suffered no damages.
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by jdong 12y ago
Chip&PIN is a red herring here, your data is just as compromised as it'd be with a magstripe card. EMV does not protect your card information.
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by jdong 12y ago
Love the EMV plug, as if it'd actually have helped. EMV transmits the card information in the clear, it only makes physical copying of the cards harder (Which really doesn't matter since credit cards can be used online). The only
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by jdong 12y ago
Fact: Recording user behavior is extremely common... My opinion: ...and users shouldn't act surprised by it.
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by jdong 12y ago
Couldn't find too good articles, but basically he did everything he could to annoy the judge. http://www.vice.com/read/lulz-and-leg-irons-in-the-courtroom... http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51232207
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by jdong 12y ago
You're assuming that weev actually ended up in prison for CFAA violations instead of acting like a dick in court.
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by jdong 12y ago
Sure, but you can use anything a currency. And being able to avoid the laws just by using something that isn't officially recognized would be rather dumb. You might as well be using cows as a currency, it'd be no different from bi
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by jdong 12y ago
Why should courts and IRS share the same definition of "currency"?

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