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Submission + - Ubiquity "Hack" Perhaps Really an Internal Extortion Attempt (bleepingcomputer.com)

tinskip writes: According to BleepingComputer "Nickolas Sharp, a former employee of networking device maker Ubiquiti, was arrested and charged today with data theft and attempting to extort his employer while posing as a whistleblower and an anonymous hacker.

As alleged, Nickolas Sharp exploited his access as a trusted insider to steal gigabytes of confidential data from his employer, then, posing as an anonymous hacker, sent the company a nearly $2 million ransom demand," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said today."

Comment Re: They are offering kind of a fair deal (Score 0) 217

Why is it only the search engine that matters? What about forcing all mobile sales (not just apps) to use Apple as a middleman, skimming 30% off the top of all transactions? What about Apple putting restrictions on functionality that competes with their own offerings, most egregious of which is not allowing any other web browsers (Firefox and Chrome on iOS are really just Safari in drag)? What about the often capricious rejection of apps on their one and only app store? I liked Apple a lot better when they were the underdog.

Comment Names are Important (Score 0) 344

This makes sense. After all the French language evolved by academic consensus in order to to ensure it remained French since even before there were French people.

Probably friends with the dipshits who picked the word "ordinateur", which is a superior alternative to "computer" since all computers do is order things. Names are important.

Comment Names are Important (Score 0) 344

This makes sense, because this is how the French language evolved to be what it is today: by academic consensus to keep it pure. Even before French was French.

Probably the same dipshits who picked "ordinateur" as the French equivalent of "computer". After all that's all that computers do: sort things. Names are important.

Comment Meow! Meow!! Meeeeooooowwwww!!!! (Score 2) 143

I don't need tech to know that my cat is demanding his nightly treat.

As a longtime pet lover, I have to say that this is either the stupidest thing I've heard from Bezos & Co for some time, or a genius plot to extort money from stupid people. Just jump ahead and combine it with the Amazon Dash Button (https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Buttons/b?ie=UTF8&node=10667898011) so that they can order their own catnip and chew toys.

Comment Square? (Score 0) 123

A square spiral galaxy with straight arms? Oh, my God! It's a giant swastika!

Maybe my geometry interpolators aren't the best, but other than a couple of straight arms on one side (looking at the picture), it doesn't look all that "square" to me, much less "distinctly square".

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