Comments on: Twitter's Jack Dorsey confesses to criminal violation of CFAA on "60 Minutes" (sort of)

By: awjt

awjt — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:21:00 +0000

Me too. At least we agree on that!

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:05:00 +0000

“I call top bunk!”
~Weev

By: joshhaglund

joshhaglund — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:48:00 +0000

your wright ;)
i blame the government.

By: awjt

awjt — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:58:00 +0000

What? You totally missed my point then made the same point. Gotta love the interwebs.

By: joshhaglund

joshhaglund — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:47:00 +0000

no, he’s correct. the adjective is subjective. the verb isn’t.

the FAIL is turning hacking into a bad word. before hollywood movies, it wasn’t.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:43:00 +0000

Obviously its now better to just ignore it if you find a major problem with the security of a website or computer service.

Don’t be such a Pollyana. Even if you ignore it, they’ll still track you down and prosecute you for having found it. They’ll just do it quietly so that you don’t get public support.

By: Cleo

Cleo — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:44:00 +0000

Saw the segment. The reporter’s grasp of technology was worse than my grandmother’s currently is. And my grandmother passed away some time ago.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:48:00 +0000

This is why you don’t confess your crimes until after you’re a billionaire.

By: Warren Grant

Warren Grant — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:15:00 +0000

Obviously its now better to just ignore it if you find a major problem with the security of a website or computer service. Like the management of said site or service who are hoping that any such problems just “go away”.
I hope someone does discover something like this, does fail to disclose it (perhaps a letter containing the problem to be mailed to the management/owner by a lawyer AFTER the exploit is discovered) and then when the glitch in question enables some malevolent entity to download, say the private medical information of 500000 citizens, it will be clear that it could have been fixed if they had been informed of it, but they weren’t because if you tell someone their website has a security hole YOU end up in jail.
This is complete BS. Shoot the messenger was supposed to be passe a century or two ago I thought. Evidently not. The Emperor has no security…

By: awjt

awjt — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:54:00 +0000

NerdSpeak FAIL here…

“Is that the same thing as hacking?”
“It’s uh, white hat hacking, yes.”