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IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to two unnamed Reuters sources the IP address of Lyft CTO Chris Lambert has been revealed by Uber's investigations to be associated with the accessing of a security key that was accidentally deposited on GitHub in 2014 and used to access 50,000 database records of Uber drivers later that year. However, bearing in mind that the breach was carried out through a fiercely protectionist Scandinavian VPN, and that Lambert was a Google software engineer before become CTO of a major technology company, it does seem surprising that he would have accessed such sensitive data with his own domestic IP address.
Exactly. Whenever an accusation starts with our competitor may have been evil..., wait for corroborating evidence.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Sounds exactly like something from Mr Robot, IP address CTO of organisation found in logs related to hacking server farm.
Like, we trust the logs, after someone has Owned the system, sure let me know how that goes!
hell, even if they did do this, good
fuck uber.
you don't get international competitors to team up against a company unless that company is trying to fuck everyone and everything.
holy hell.
i don't often root for chinese anticompetitive behavior... but fuck uber.
and fuck uber for making me bedfellows with those assholes.
Uber is great in the same way Pets.com was great: they're burning their investor's money to run an unsustainable business. I loved getting 40lb bags of dog food delivered for free and I love paying less than the driver is making for my Uber rides. As a consumer, I win!
What's new about Uber compared to Pets.com is that Uber is the VC world's experiment in seeing if they can create illegal businesses and then use their huge piles of money to change the law in their favor. This is what should really scare everyone.
-Chris