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Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth (www.wired.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Paywall for me :c

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[–] Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

bypass paywalls clean works

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

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