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    Root also published the data allegedly scraped from WhiteDate online.

    The hacker said that they scraped WhiteDate’s public data and found “poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.” Root said that users’ images included precise geolocation metadata that “practically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies.”

    “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

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      TechCrunch also sent an email to an address that appears on the public domain records of two of the three websites. The person behind that address also did not immediately respond to our email.

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          I legit had to look up whether or not it was the same actor. This is one of those things that, in the pre-internet days, you could say and people would just have to believe you. Like that legend that Marilyn Manson was Paul from The Wonder Years.

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    I’d be very nervous: Did I place enough try/catch blocks in my lol.py?

    Are all the passwords correct before I run it on stage?

    Is this endpoint to delete an email correctly spelled out?

    Does the WiFi of the conference allow connecting to these domains?

    So many things could go wrong.

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        That’s basically what I thought when I saw this - there’s no way anything is happening that quickly, this is just outputting “done!” over and over.

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    The genius of launching an attack of this scale from an address space that is already jam-packed full of hackers, should not be understated. Id say that, if not for doing it live on stage, law enforcement now has a giant haystack of needles to sift through.

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    The Pink Ranger was always my favourite 😏

    (Kimberly, not Cat!)

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    🤘😂🤘 Too much rock for one hand! Kick their asses and delete their shit, Martha! Fuck yeah!

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      Skills aren’t magic, the idea of innate skills is a capitalist lie, you can learn them, if you’re willing

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        True, anyone can do anything, but try doing that while having a family and having to pay bills when living paycheck to paycheck. You gotta know when to join in and when to cheer.

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          I am a self taught SWE with self diagnosed ADHD (not a clinical diagnosis) currently working as a senior engineer. You have to have intense passion and learn how to live with ADHD. It’s totally doable.

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            I wish it was easy to bottle. Some rare days I’m fucking on it and everything is easy and I’ve got unlimited willpower.

            If i could save those days for when its useful and appropriate…

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          It’s still possible, just you need to figure out a prerequisite skill first of healthy management of other issues

          Heck, a lot of hackers have exactly the same thing.

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          Honestly, I think STEM attracts ADHD, AuDHD and similar, so that’s far far far less of an issue than you might think