“we can’t help feeling sad that a teen with that level of talent evidently wasn’t given the support and encouragement by Oxfordshire’s education system necessary to put it to better use. ”

    • regalia
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      910 months ago

      There isn’t much talent in phishing. You can’t make a career out of that.

      • @Zikeji@programming.dev
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        510 months ago

        There are security firms that run periodic social engineering attacks against their clients, including phishing attacks. This is a service performed to both better educate employees at the client companies and keep them aware of new attacks, and to flag those who fail often. Someone has to come up with the phishing attacks, granted probably not an entire career right there.

      • I mean you can, but it wouldn’t be ethical or in some cases legal. Spying does still exist. Phishing is just a really low level attempt at gaining information from someone, and it works. I can’t imagine it’s not used by people who have good, albeit questionable, careers.

      • @nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        110 months ago

        Yes you can :D even more nowadays and you will have plenty more money than having a full life debt and working for a corporation.

    • @30p87@feddit.de
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      310 months ago

      Leaking and spoiling an upcoming Game isn’t really that good tbh. The only positive thing that emerged from it is DarkViperAU joking about it.

        • regalia
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          110 months ago

          Considering they didn’t even launch the game and was in pre-pre-pre-production, yeah it was pretty bad. Not to mention they leaked the source code, and Rockstar is by far ahead of everyone else with their open world streaming tech, so it leaked their industry secrets that put them at an advantage.