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Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?
An anonymous reader writes "While browsing around the Fox News website, I found that directory indexes are turned on. So, I started following the tree up, until I got to /admin. Eventually, I found my way into /admin/xml_parser/zdnet/, in which, there is a shell script. Seeing as it's a shell script, and I use Linux, I took a peek. Inside, is a username and password to an FTP. So, of course, I tried to login. The result? Epic fail on Fox's part. And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic." It's already been changed of course, but that's still pretty amusing.
Somehow I doubt the FBI will find it amusing.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
PWND!
The game.
Thank god someone said this so I didn't have to.
If you didn't realize that Bush was lying (not merely incorrect, but lying) before the war, you were either grossly ignorant and negligent of your duty as a citizen, or just goddamn stupid. Own up to one of the two, because it was blatantly obvious that the dude was full of shit. FFS, the Powell presentation, to which questioning journalists were directed for the ultimate "slam dunk" of evidence in the weeks before it occurred ("I can't answer that question now; Powell will cover that to your satisfaction at the upcoming conference blah blah blah") was, in context, one of the funniest things I've ever watched. Comedy gold.
I was drooling and soiling diapers during Contra, so this ridiculous debacle has served as my first "wake-up call". If the people rule in a democracy, and this is representative of the level of responsibility we can expect the people to take in performing their duty of running the country, then the American people are wholly unfit to lead.
Prior to this, I had a fairly humanistic and optimistic view of the world and of modern government and society. I assumed that any new person I might meet was aware of his or her surroundings and generally capable, and only changed that opinion if a given individual failed to live up to those assumptions.
These days I just hope that the handful of people who are actually paying attention--not even necessarily unusually intelligent, just paying attention--can keep things together long enough to save the retarded and/or uninterested population which comprises the bulk of humanity from destroying itself. I now assume that anyone I meet is far less aware of the world in general than I am, not to mention far less intelligent in a practical sense (this speaks not of capacity for knowledge or reason, but of actual application and leverage of that capacity; I still believe that most people are quite able to be far "smarter" than they are, though I may one day find that to be another happy fiction of mine) and only change that opinion in the (very, very rare) cases when a person proves themselves to be otherwise. All-in-all, this model has served me better than my previously-held one, but it is far less comforting and makes me feel very isolated.
I guess what I'm really saying is:
Thank you, America, for showing me how wrong I was.
(can you tell I'm kind of bitter?)