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Researcher flags OpenCart security issue, founder rages(www.theregister.com)

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This is great. Truly unbelievable how quickly can someone dig their own hole.

Security guy’s blog post

The GitHub issue. Well worth a read.

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nick@midwest.social
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Someone went off his meds and started posting to the internet.

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naught@sh.itjust.works
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Guy writes like the donald trump of software

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nick@midwest.social
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No kidding, way to burn every bridge. Software is an amazingly small world and he just torpedoed his career if he ever decided to find a job.

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ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world
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I don’t often read GitHub issue discussions, but that was wild.

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justdoitlater@lemmy.world
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Yeah, not smart to pissoff the infosec community…

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Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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Hilarious. The end where he talks about child trafficking and police, hahaha wtf?

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Illecors@lemmy.cafeOPM
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I did not fully get it, either. Thr Reg comments are implying that’s related to QAnon, but I’m only vaguely familiar with it, not sure it’s related.

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Hupf@feddit.de
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Looks like just fixing the issue would involve much less energy and negative pr

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