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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Why is this getting downvoted? It seems like a good video. Is there something I'm missing?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here's an article with most of the relevant information for those who don't want to watch. Basically it's the story of D3f4ult and Cracka, two hackers who embarrassed the CIA and got arrested for it.

The most interesting thing to me is that they were uncovered because one bragged about it to his friend, who likely turned him in (or, since it was over Xbox Live, maybe it got caught in a filter or something). That's the #1 rule of criminal OPSec, don't tell anyone about your crimes.

The message for the general privacy community is similar, you're only as safe as your weakest link. For example, nobody cares if your email is self-hosted at an anonymous VPN and triple encrypted or whatever if you send plaintext emails to your friends and family on less secure email services.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Some people don't like youtube links I guess.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I don't really think it's what most people want or expect from this community, that said I watched this this the other day and it was a very entertaining and well told story!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Possibly because its only a video as opposed to an article with a video

[-] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Bro... That's the description of the video...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, and its an ad

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Okay fair. They have shady sponsors.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=PmtFtWVrxFE

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Did he dropped a db table in a "PHP shell [by sending] everything in /dev/null"? At 05:42

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