One thing that strikes me as sad about this is that he very obviously had some level of talent, drive and ability; and if we as a society had found a way to channel that productively we would all be better off.<p>And before you go all "lol, cracking password resets is not technical skill"; think about this for a bit. If you were raised in a context like his (parents separated early, bad schools, no mentors etc.) would you necessarily have turned out better?<p>Who knows; if he'd had a better math teacher in junior high school who'd gotten him interested in programming early, he might have wound up working at a startup in Silicon Valley.
I always wanted to see a marketplace for valuable information. Think of all the leaks that we hear about and think about all the ones that we don't hear about.<p>You would go on it. List your information for sale and then blogs, newspapers and/or whoever may be interested can purchase it from you.
> <i>"One reporter on television called him 'creepy,' " she continues. "It's not right." Hearing this, Chaney looked up from his grilled cheese. The paparazzi just caught him on a bad day, he figures. "I hadn't shaved in a while," he tells his mom. "I kind of looked like a creep."</i><p>Is it possible that not only his mum, but he himself, doesn't realise that reading private conversations and looking at private (sometimes nude) photos belonging to others, without their permission or knowledge, is "creepy"?
I'm a bit surprised so many people would put real information as answer to their secret question, and I'm surprised a lot of websites offer this alternative to log in without knowing the password, it seems like a big security hole to me.
Stories like this make me think there would be a market for low-volume, high-security email services. For example, a service that only accepts logins from pre-authorized devices, where any access pattern out of the ordinary is immediately vetted by a human with extensive experience. A sort of concierge email / instant-message / voice-mail service.<p>Does anyone here point me to such a service?
anyone else disappointed by what the article turned out to be about? i was expecting someone who had found ingenious new ways to deal with some entrenched hollywood practices.