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Last year, a vigilante hacker broke into the servers of a company that sells spyware to everyday consumers and wiped their servers, deleting photos captured from monitored devices. A year later, the hacker has done it again.
Thursday, the hacker said he started wiping some cloud servers that belong to Retina-X Studios, a Florida-based company that sells spyware products targeted at parents and employers, but that are also used by people to spy on their partners without their consent.
[...] "None of this should be online at all," the hacker told Motherboard, claiming that he had deleted a total of 1 terabyte of data.
"Aside from the technical flaws, I really find this category of software disturbing. In the US, it's mainly targeted to parents," the hacker said, explaining his motivations for going after Retina-X. "Edward Snowden has said that privacy is what gives you the ability to share with the world who you are on your own terms, and to protect for yourself the parts of you that you're still experimenting with. I don't want to live in a world where younger generations grow up without that right."
[...] Retina-X was not the only spyware company hacked last year. Other hackers also breached FlexiSpy, an infamous provider of spyware that has actively marketed its apps to jealous lovers. At the time, the hackers promised that their two victims—FlexiSpy and Retina-X—were only the first in line, and that they would target more companies that sell similar products.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Wednesday February 21 2018, @05:40AM (1 child)
It's ok Mike, we forgive you. Just be careful about what you do in the future. :-))
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday February 21 2018, @06:36AM
I once wrote a database kernel for a hedge fund. My kernel is now part of a quantitative investment program. I like to call it "A License To Print Money". As a result of my contribution that program can print money twice as fast.
Having that on my resume resulted in countless solicitations to apply to bloomberg and solomon-page to work on Sub-Millisecond Precision High-Speed Trading.
That sub-millisecond precision trading code is a thing is why we really did need to Occupy Wall Street.
From time to time a proposal is floated to create a punitive, very-short-term capital gains tax, which would go a long ways toward solving the problem but so far it's never gained traction.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]