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Re:Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO by danans on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @06:42PM (#26322805)
It's also clearly not intended as a password (why would you password protect a public zip archive?), but instead a "yeah you got us, but f** off" kind of message.

It may seem juvenile, but it is the kind of thing people do in an adversarial situation when they have no better hand to play, AKA they "got nothin'".

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Re:Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO by tzs on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:49AM (#26325232)
> why would you password protect a public zip archive?

I have no idea why they did it in this case, but I've seen it done to stop overly aggressive antivirus or antispam software from looking inside when the archive contains stuff likely to trigger false positives.

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Re:Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO by user-the-name on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:06AM (#26326927)
I mean, that can't possibly be true. Surely you can take one look at what the password is, and be able to tell instantly why they did it.

It's because they are juvenile, far-right goons.

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