Re:Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg faces lengthy jail term
by daeken on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:32PM
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Could not agree more. There's always that voice in the back of your head wondering why you got a funky error message when your input contained an apostrophe; it doesn't take a lot to tip over the edge into something risky, even if you're conscious of the attention on you.
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Re:Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg faces lengthy jail term
by tptacek on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:35PM
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Yep. You train a lot of app pentesters and you get used to warning them: do not try this at home. You know you can just edit a URL in your browser by just a couple characters and poof be an admin. It should would be interesting to find out what it's like to be an admin on this site... oh, wait, if I do that I might end up talking to a prosecutor.
That's obviously not a normative description. I don't think it's good that the world works like that, although I probably blame different people than most of HN.
Anyways, point being: the assumption that a very smart person wouldn't dream of breaking into a government server: does not at all square with my experience. Doesn't make the assumption wrong; it's just a data point.
Re:Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg faces lengthy jail term
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday October 30, 2014 @07:19PM
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> I don't think it's good that the world works like that, although I probably blame different people than most of HN.
Who do you blame, out of curiosity?