Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth (www.wired.com)
from kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to technology@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2024 13:19
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21037085

A decade old longread from Wired that also shines a light on how trivial it was to bypass mechanisms of some online services back in the day.

(I am not sure if Wired has this paywalled because I had the BPC extension installed but it opens properly with it).

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phdepressed@sh.itjust.works on 26 Aug 2024 13:40 next collapse

It opened fine for me so I don’t think there’s a paywall.

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Aug 2024 21:56 collapse

Paywall for me :c

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Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub on 28 Aug 2024 15:27 collapse

bypass paywalls clean works

floofloof@lemmy.ca on 26 Aug 2024 14:05 collapse

Hopefully companies have got better at protecting against social engineering since 2012.