alt Hacker NewsSo purely from a hacker perspective, I'm amused at the whining.
Like, a corporation had a weakness you could exploit to get free/cheap thing. Fair game.
Then someone shares the exploit with a bunch of script kiddies, they exploit it to the Nth degree, and the company immediately notices and shuts everyone down.
Like, my dudes, what did you think was going to happen?
You treasure these little tricks, use them cautiously, and only share them sparingly. They can last for years if you carefully fly under the radar, before they're fixed by accident when another system is changed. THEN you share tales of your exploits for fame and internet points.
And instead, you integrate your exploit into hip new thing, share it at scale, write blog posts and short form video content about it, basically launch a DDoS against the service you're exploiting, and then are shocked when the exploit gets patched and whine about your free thing getting taken away?
Like, what did you expect was going to happen?
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> you could exploit to get free/cheap thing
$249/mo isn't cheap
Kind of a built-in feature of a Cool Thing is that it will get found/shared/widespread.
(See Napster.)
> You treasure these little tricks, use them cautiously, and only share them sparingly. They can last for years if you carefully fly under the radar, before they're fixed by accident when another system is changed. THEN you share tales of your exploits for fame and internet points.
It's the same with vulnerabilities in slot machines. Damn rare but they exist - in 2014, when I worked in that industry, one gang made a big bang: in a single night, casinos across Germany had to say goodbye to probably 10 million € [1]. Of course, that vulnerability made massive waves... but from what I heard back then, it had been circulating for many months beforehand. Of course, 10 million € is nothing to sneeze at, but keeping a low profile could have made everyone in the know far more profit.
[1] https://www.t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_68982394/softwa...
literally this is why we can't have nice things.
> So purely from a hacker perspective, I'm amused at the whining.
> Like, a corporation had a weakness you could exploit to get free/cheap thing. Fair game.
From a pure hacker perspective, I'm surprised there are people calling a legitimate usage a "weakness you could exploit"?
What weakness? What exploit? People have been using it in a way that was technically possible. And they paid for it, many purchased the product specifically because of it.
Then Google unilaterally changed the TOS of a product people already purchased and started pulling the rug. And again, there are people who call themselves hackers who approve of that? Even worse, they call people calling out Google for their monopolistic behavior whining.