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FBI's most wanted cyber-criminal nabbed: password discovered to be his cat, 123

36 pointsby newsreview1over 5 years ago

10 comments

arikrover 5 years ago
I wonder if that's a lie for the public so that they don't have to reveal the method they actually used to get his password.
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dmixover 5 years ago
Most of those anonymous guys were rookie kids just messing around with powerful tools. Not all of them of course but even in Lulzsec, which was known to be the better of the lot, only two turned out to be the hackers who did most of the work IIRC. But it only takes one to take down the rest.<p>I just came across one of their Wikipedias and it turns out one of the Lulzsec guys was doing blockchain stuff recently that got acquired by Facebook and is now part of Libra which is a bit... ironic. But to be fair he later said:<p>&gt; Al-Bassam has since been critical of Libra, stating that &quot;the road to dystopia is paved with good intentions, and I&#x27;m concerned about Libra&#x27;s model for decentralization&quot;.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mustafa_Al-Bassam" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mustafa_Al-Bassam</a>
rahuldottechover 5 years ago
Article is from 2014. Year should be appended to the post title.
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makerofspoonsover 5 years ago
If I had a plausible deniability partition I would put an easy password on it as well.
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carokannover 5 years ago
They say it&#x27;s an encrypted disk. It could have a &quot;safety layer&quot; with an easy to guess password.<p>Either way FBI doesn&#x27;t need to know anyone&#x27;s password IMO. People call me pessimistic or unsophisticated for it but i genuinely believe in the eyes of state actors, you really do not have any privacy. They have access to so many lives, they only complain about getting lost in the data (e.g. failing to detect threats).
lookACamelover 5 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;culture-news&#x2F;the-rise-and-fall-of-jeremy-hammond-enemy-of-the-state-183599&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rollingstone.com&#x2F;culture&#x2F;culture-news&#x2F;the-rise-a...</a>
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chkaloonover 5 years ago
I figured this was an Onion article before I opened it.
curtis3389over 5 years ago
Reminds me of this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkpasswd.net&#x2F;s&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkpasswd.net&#x2F;s&#x2F;</a>
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jaclazover 5 years ago
&gt;By Mark Molloy and AP 4:09PM GMT 13 Nov 2014<p>[2014]
octosphereover 5 years ago
OOPSEC Fail