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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.
If RIAA and CSI taught us anything is that both IP and DNA are definitive proof of guilt. Since Chris Lambert was shown to have both, we can be certain he did it.
Uber has long proven themselves to be eminently trustworthy and never scheming up shady ways to try to drive their competition out of business, so we can just take them at their word on this.
The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
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.
What a great defense... there's no way it's me.
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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!
My new airline is really cheap. I skip things like a 100 hour inspections, 135 certs, opspecs, and all the other things that make running an airline a huge PITA. I have a plane, what more do you want?
Just like a restaurant which doesn't give a toss about minimum wage, where its ingredients come from, the cleanliness of the kitchens or the reliability of the refrigeration - but the customers love the public face, service and price, so that restaurant should be given a break when it comes to following the rules other restaurants have to abide by...
a scam as their business model
Last time I checked, their business model was to offer a valuable service that people really like in exchange for money.
People really like cocaine and meth, but exchanging those for money is just as illegal as operating illegal cabs.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
So wait. Not only does Uber choose to commandeer Slashdot at every opportunity to spout off how great it is through increasingly vehement sockpuppet ACs and the pushing of clickbait articles, it ALSO feels the need to pull you aside and fill you in on its paranoid fantasies?
Man, 'corporate personhood' is weird. This is distinctly a personality that's consistent and recognizable. Just yeah.
Excuse me, Uber. I think I see somebody over there that I know D:
Apparently they leaked the key on GitHub, and allege that this IP address visited the page - along with tens of thousands of other visitors.
If I were CTO of a company, and I saw a Slashdot posting about "YourCompetitor leaked all of their keys on GitHub!", I would probably click through. ESPECIALLY if I were in charge of preventing similar leaks from the company I worked for.