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A comment on Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail Online.

Re:Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail... by dsr_ on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:45PM (#20567254)
If we assume that Ms. Thompson is generally terrible at opsec, then presumably she is also terrible at offensive security, which leads to one of two conclusions:

Either:

A: She is being framed.

or

B: Capital One's security was (and probably still is) laughable.

She doesn't seem to be being framed. If Capital One's security is horrendous, they are unlikely to be exceptional... so we will see much more of this.

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Re:Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail... by mieseratte on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:52PM (#20567340)
> If we assume that Ms. Thompson is generally terrible at opsec, then presumably she is also terrible at offensive security,

One can possess great technical skills and still be a braggart. Nothing about a lack of OPSEC implies she cannot exploit a vulnerable system.

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Re:Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail... by izend on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:49PM (#20567310)
This tweet alone seems to indicate she definitely did it...

https://twitter.com/0xA3A97B6C/status/1151901325598187521

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Re:Paige Thompson, Capital One Hacking Suspect, Left a Trail... by th3iedkid on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:37PM (#20567781)
Isn’t all of that anyway in AWS docs ? Would something like this stand as an evidence to implicate her in US courts?
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