A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

  • Dark Arc
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    348 months ago

    That’s a really silly take … a Paywall is just an authorization mechanism.

    That’s like saying the source code of lemmy leaks and you expect your account to be compromised any second.

    • @daddy32
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      38 months ago

      Well, the open source code is less likely to commit “security through obscurity” than closed one.