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Infosec ethics in zero days, exploits and attribution

4 pointsby santaragolabsalmost 8 years ago

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cody8295almost 8 years ago
I was working for a tech support&#x2F;student financial aid support center for a couple months and was fired for finding and using an exploit.<p>It was getting close to Thanksgiving and all the employees had to do state mandated online ethics training (this was a Connecticut state job).<p>The online ethics training was honestly bullshit, it was poorly designed and even more poorly implemented. Some slides wouldn&#x27;t load fully and others would be buggy. I had to restart it about 3 times.<p>In my frustration I looked into the source code for shortcuts and found a javascript file which included a function called SetScore(min,max,val).<p>After opening Chrome dev console and trying the function, I exited the training and refreshed to see a score of 100!<p>I immediately emailed my managers, and the admin of the site where the training was being hosted. 2 weeks later I got a call that I was terminated.