Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO

Re:Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO by rsynnott on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:37PM (#26322750)

The thread was about the claim that it _must_ be a honeypot because it's so incompetent. What's your theory for how this happened, if neither incompetence nor deliberate?

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Re:Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO by eternalban on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:58PM (#26322956)

Well, take that up with the GP.

> What's your theory for how this happened, if neither incompetence nor deliberate?

Honestly no theories, just rubber necking here :) but since you ask, here is what my shaving session with Occam brings up:

- cognitive impairment (alcohol, various fun chemicals)

- emotional agitation (relationship, personal matter, etc)

- rushed for time (silly mistake)

- arrogance ("I can do C++, Scala, JS, and PhP. This Ruby stuff will be cake, and I do not need to ask my team why they had those 'funny' filters on top of the function")

- malicious coding ("Sure, I'll help you scale it. I hate SV too. I hate it so much I spent 7 years at FB.")

So re. that last possibility, I also do not agree with your GP that this indicates that that platform was a honeypot. This specific event can be construed as placing a backdoor in their code.

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