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City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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Mayor said data was unusable to criminals; researcher proved otherwise.

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[–] assembly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

How do these people even navigate life if they are blaming the security researcher for using public tools to download data from a public site? Is it “hacking” because the URl looks “funny” and ends in .onion?

[–] OppositeOfOxymoron@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Upvoting for Streisand Effect. ;)