Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth(www.wired.com)

posted 3 months ago

A decade old longread from Wired that also shines a light on how trivial it was to bypass mechanisms of some online services back in the day.

(I am not sure if Wired has this paywalled because I had the BPC extension installed but it opens properly with it).

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3 months ago

Hopefully companies have got better at protecting against social engineering since 2012.

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