• Skeezix
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    151 day ago

    We can’t call them hackers any more? They’re “threat actors” now?

    • @bahbah23
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      1123 hours ago

      “Threat actor” is more formal. Hacker is a more colloquial term with historically ambiguous meaning.

    • @[email protected]
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      321 hours ago

      Because they never actually hack anything. Either they fish someone’s password, find an email and password combo someone reusedfrom a different site, or someone left root with ssh access and a default password.

      • Ziglin (they/them)
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        116 hours ago

        They could also have found a vulnerability in the database system, though it is of course unlikely.

    • @Blue_Morpho
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      423 hours ago

      I don’t even understand the phrase? Are they a threat or are they only acting? It’s a Jerry Seinfeld routine.

  • @bananabenana
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    523 hours ago

    Oh no, someone may see the shitty code chatgpt generates for me

    • @[email protected]
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      219 hours ago

      Why wouldn’t it be? Leaks happen every month, and everyone has been listed in at least a few. It’s not really a problem, so long as you use a unique password for every service, and change your password when notified you’ve been in a breach.