Comment on We really need a modern day Robin Hood hacker type

• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay so now you’re in one system in one company. And that person still needs approval and a four hour zoom call to push anything into a position where it can make a difference.

  I know, I’ve been on dozens of calls like that.

  And even then you’ve pwned one of about a dozen companies.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And that person still needs approval and a four hour zoom call to push anything into a position where it can make a difference.

    You don’t need approval when you are a criminal and have used exploits to gain root access to the company’s computers.

    You think Aaron Swartz was on Zoom meetings to get approval before picking the lock to the network closet, hacking root and downloading all the University’s public research papers?

    This is you:

    “No one can rob a bank. Think of the meetings needed to get HR to approve bringing a gun in the building.”

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Downloading a bunch of data from educational systems is significantly easier than getting exploits into banks and financial systems, which is what I assumed a Robin Hood hacker would be doing.

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      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Banks are hacked too:

        techcrunch.com/…/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data…

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