• Hyperi0n@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if u/spez ordered this hack so he can back off and save face. Of course I don’t know the context but that’s the first thing that comes to mind.

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      1 year ago

      Nah, reading this no this hack is personal. They hacked this site months ago and now they’re coming in here looking the heroes of the story? No, they were ignored. The hackers got pissed and now they’re using this as an opportunity to get back at reddit. So what, they got maybe a terabyte of decompressed data at most, and they want 4 million dollars? This feels like some script kiddies utilizing a bad situation after getting ignored, not a professional op.

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    1 year ago

    Is it safe to assume that nothing comes of this… Just like every other “hacker group” pretending they hacked some major entitity for a good cause?

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    1 year ago

    So they “broke into Reddit” back in February and contacted Reddit in April. After Reddit didn’t react they contacted them again a few days ago at this very opportunistic time.

    They never specified exactly what kind of data they stole, nor did they prove it by providing samples.

    For all we know this story could be entirely made up and they actually have nothing.

    But even if they have something, them trying to come across as the good guys in this is so weird to me. No, you’re not the good guys. You are criminals.

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    I want the API changes reverted as much as any other Reddit refugees here, but I can’t stand behind this kind of malfeasant extortion.

    Not only is it blatantly obvious they’re using the API change rhetoric as a means of irritating Reddit into giving them their hush money, it also avts towards delegitimising all protest efforts made by the Subreddits thus far

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        But as the text says, this extortion began 5 days before the API changes were even announced. These criminals don’t give a f*ck about the API and threaten to leak the data of those same users they’re claiming to protect.

        I think we should just ignore this, because it’s a distraction for public pressure and will only make Reddit look better - either by delegitimising the protest or by making them look like a victim instead of the perpetrator they are.

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        Karma IS a bitch, but I for one am still not going to stand behind illegalities like this. It’s not the way.

        As I said before, these hackers don’t care. The grandstanding is their way of getting attention off the backs of the protests. All supporting these criminals does is delegitimise the real protest by making Reddit look like the victim.

        That aside, even from a practical standpoint this wouldn’t work longterm. If extorted into backpeddalling, Reddit will just quietly up their data security, and once they’ve made sure the threat of a leak is dealt with, they’ll go right on back to the API change.