Comment by xeromal
Comment by xeromal 9 days ago
Would've been fun to ban every account and hope they didn't have DB backups
Comment by xeromal 9 days ago
Would've been fun to ban every account and hope they didn't have DB backups
Well the Federal Government certainly wouldn't agree with you. Give it go though!
The Federal Government? Thank goodness these companies only operate in one country. Or we've finally succeeded in uniting under one singular world government
In case you haven't noticed, the FBI charges hackers across the world on a frequent basis. And you should fear them regardless of what country you're in if you're going to be messing with American companies. I've worked at companies where the FBI caught our engineers that were offshore stealing IP. The Company didn't have a clue, they are watching anything and everything that concerns American interest and yes there are no jurisdictions/borders stopping them, outside of Russia, Iran and NK ofc.
Cant have fitness stress tests for the big guys. They need protection for lazy execution of minimal efforts.
Well it might be fun for a sec.
They definately do have backups, no-one is storing 400mm records on a single machine and ultimately you'd just take them offline for an afternoon and then spend 15 years in a federal prison
And this is why the world has turned against tech...
Because the first thought (at least, the highest rated post right now) it that it would have been "fun" to hurt millions of people to teach the company they were doing business with a lesson.
Way more fun to enable every game for every account. Literally. Limited horizons.
I thought about this... What would be the outcome here do you think? Ie if this guy didn't report and did decide to mess around for real? Could he have been tracked? Would EA be down for weeks?!
I mean, Kevin Mitnick spent time in jail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
I wouldn't mess around with this stuff myself.
Me neither, but would it have been easy to trace him? I mean if he was going to use this for bad, I would assume he would have waited a month or so then done it all via a VPN etc. But point being he _could_ have done this and to be honest for all we know, someone else _has_ been abusing it until it was patched...
VPN is used to bypass regional restrictions.
The VPN provider will share information if an active investigation is underway.
It's going to completely "ruin their day" for someone to not be able to play an EA video game? Really?
I'd find something else to do; there's no shortage of entertainment options these days. I certainly wouldn't let it "ruin my day". If the unavailability of a single video game actually ruins your whole day, you have a very sad life.
I'd love to see this happen to every billion dollar company that doesn't have a bug bounty program. Offering zero incentive for reporting vulnerability just encourages hackers to exploit it for their own advantage or to wreak havoc.
As a paying customer, I expect better from these companies and personally wouldn't blame the hackers for exploiting their findings if no program exists.