In an age where “willfully giving out your account password” is called hacking, here I’d call it tomato tomato.
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KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unclear from the article but, while a bit pedantic, this sounds more like it was potentially a DDoS attack rather than a proper “hack”.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
here I’d call it tomato or tomato.
It’s pronounced tomato
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Potato potato
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can keep your nasty chips
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Social Engineering is hacking cmv.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it’s probably safe to say that your view doesn’t need to be changed.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can argue it’s a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.
But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That’s cracking, not hacking. If you’re going to be pedantic, be correct.
em2@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
That’s called a PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
There’s usually an element of that with cracking passwords. Even if you just triy and pick the right wordlist for a target you’re already engaging in a way. The more you know about them the shorter the wordlist. And if you spend enough time getting to know shit about them you can reduce the wordlist to one entry because they told you the password. But it’s not necessarily a completely different process.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, because I agree.
PaulBunyan@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The article seems pretty clear to me. Maybe it was updated?