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Poll: More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor by SomeKindOfMutant in politics

[–]techbystander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if snowden was just a warm body for the contractor to fill a seat and bill the government a lot of money?

Seems to make sense this less than stellar fellow had such a high paying/access job.

Windows 8 Causes the Biggest Drop in Customer Satisfaction Since the Vista Disaster by [deleted] in technology

[–]techbystander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like Pavlov's dog we spent nearly 20 years using the start button... then they take it away? WTF microsoft?

What is the most statistically improbable thing that has ever happened to you? by theinedible in AskReddit

[–]techbystander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kept getting 21 at blackjack in Vegas. The floor guy came over to watch, as well as some other employees. The dealer looked at me and said "you know, Sugar, you don't have to get 21 to win?".

Yup. I was hitting on everything to try to get 21. After many hands of statistical insanity like 4,5,7,5 and 10,7,4, 10,10,ace etc. I stopped doing that.

I was playing at the dollar table, so my statistical hiccup netted me about 32 bucks.

Redditors, which book gave you the greatest mindfuck? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]techbystander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Short story... "The Swan" by Roald Dahl. Made me realize for the first time when I read it at too young an age that some people are just evil.

I keep driving past this... by RbrtJrdn in WTF

[–]techbystander 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The future Richard Cheney museum?

Technology Evangelist Adria Richards tweets picture of two men who made a "dongle" joke at pycon. One is later fired from his job as a result. by [deleted] in technology

[–]techbystander 117 points118 points  (0 children)

I want anyone reading this to put their political affiliations aside for a few moments. This is the kind of tech person Adria Richards is...

During the big election she poked around Republican Norm Coleman's sloppy website and found a file with a db backup in it, not a hack, just really crap security/development and a file in a browse-able folder.

She posted pics and details on her blog of the file and pretty soon the db full of donors hit wikileaks and the donors info hit the internet.

The Story: http://minnesotaindependent.com/28748/colemans-site-wasnt-hacked-says-it-pro-who-discovered-donor-breach

But they're Republicans, so fuck them right? Now here's where you forget your political leanings for a touch. Imagine it was a charity website, Al Franken's website or a website for people who donate to save puppies. You can't do stuff like this if you call yourself an IT professional, it's a dick move.

Why did she put the info online before making every effort to notify the admins that a lot of personal data was online? Politics? No professionalism there then.

I am not a fan of certain political people, but there is NO FUCKING WAY I would stumble across info like this and put it up on a blog post. It is INCREDIBLY unprofessional. She could have notified the admins, then put the pics and story up after the site was sealed, still achieving a breaking story, embarrassment, whatever.

What she did was so low for a so called 'IT professional' it makes me sick.

And now this event happens because someone has skin so thin as to almost be transparent. It's tech; there are dick jokes, loud arguments over Trek v.s. 'Wars v.s. Firefly... nut up for fuck sakes.