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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday August 17 2019, @10:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the she's-a-keeper dept.

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New Allegations: Capital One Suspect Stole From 30+ Organizations

The woman allegedly responsible for the massive breach of customer data at Capital One stole data from 30 other organizations, according to new information from prosecutors.

In a new court filing, they alleged that Paige Thompson stole terabytes of information from enterprises, educational institutions and other organizations, although she claims not to have sold or distributed any of it to others.

The information is being revealed as part of efforts by prosecutors to persuade the judge to deny bail.

It alleges that Thompson has a history of threatening behavior, including threats to kill others and herself. She is also said to have harassed a couple for seven years, forcing them to obtain a protection order.

Investigators found the new information on data breaches on servers in Thompson’s bedroom.

“That data varies significantly in both type and amount. For example, much of the data appears not to be data containing personal identifying information,” the court filing explained.

“At this point, however, the government is continuing to work to identify specific entities from which data was stolen, as well as the type of data stolen from each entity. The government expects to add an additional charge against Thompson based upon each such theft of data, as the victims are identified and notified.”

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:08AM (14 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:08AM (#881654) Journal
    There's more than the average number of trans in IT. As for it being a mental disorder, that was put to bed years ago. Post surgery rates of mental illness are just fractionally higher than the average population, and much of that can be explained by society's ongoing refusal to accept trans women as women - though this is mostly men who have a problem with us.

    Prior to transition is another story - physical assaults, harassment, sexual predation, public rejection, outright hatred ... it has a heavy toll. All because in m2f women, the SRY gene doesn't trigger the 12-week-old foetus to generate testosterone to masculinize the part of the brain that governs your innate sense of what sex you are. Everyone has this, just that it doesn't work all the time.

    Hatred towards someone because of something that happened to them before they were born is ignorant.

    Trans people are born that way, same as non-trans people aren't. It's like being colour blind - no matter how many times people try to tell you its green, if you see brown you continue to see brown, even if intellectually you know that others aren't lying to you when they say green. You just aren't capable of seeing it. Same as if you have an innate sense of being a woman in the wrong body, you cannot overrule what your brain is telling you, because the hardware was never changed at 12 weeks by exposure to testosterone.

    We've known this since the 90s. That it's still an issue 25 years later isn't quite as bad as denying climate heating, but it's in the same general category of anti-science ignorance.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:34AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:34AM (#881667)

    Thanks for sharing.

    I never heard of the SRY gene and its role in regulating sex hormones that are responsible for changes to a developing brain that select gender identity.

    Not anti-science. Just the plain, never heard that before, kind of ignorance.

    Is this the same biological basis for men who identify as gay? Are trans folk and gay folk more or less the same, but some decide to change their physical appearance? Or, are these different things and/or with different origins?

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:58PM (1 child)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday August 18 2019, @02:58PM (#881754) Journal

      The LGBT crowd is not representative of transsexuals and never has been. The administration in most organizations is openly hostile to employing transsexuals, but they sure love their tay transvestites. And they spend lots of time online infiltrating trans women discussion groups before starting to troll that trans women are the same as them - men in dresses (their words). -

      Historically, up until the Moral Majority started their attacks, transsexuality was considered interesting, not perverted. Cover of various family-oriented magazines, favourable newspaper, radio, and TV coverage, nobody out picketing or pushing bathroom bills.

      Of course the gay community resented that they weren't receiving the same respect, same as they resented that transsexuals were always allowed to marry in their new sex in most jurisdictions.

      Many transsexuals say "fuck off" to pride because the LGBT community has never hesitated to throw us under the bus when it was to their advantage. And now with pride just being aboutt making money off corporate sponsorship, why bother? And this is becoming a concern even among gays and lesbians - it's become all about money, power, and creating jobs for buddies.

      There are straight, gay, and lesbian transsexuals - but thanks to all the misinformation pushed by the LGBT organizations, everyone confuses trans women with drag queens, and assumes you must be gay. The only thing to be proud about is finding the courage to be yourself in a hostile world - and that doesn't merit a parade. At least not in my book.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:39PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:39PM (#881814)

        Historically, up until the Moral Majority started their attacks, transsexuality was considered interesting, not perverted. Cover of various family-oriented magazines, favourable newspaper, radio, and TV coverage, nobody out picketing or pushing bathroom bills.

        It was also prior to California nut cases dressing up their five-year-old's and asking courts to provide hormone and surgical "help" to their kids who are barely old enough to be cognizant that they aren't superman, transformers, ninjas or any other fantasy personas.

  • (Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:59AM (5 children)

    by Coward, Anonymous (7017) on Sunday August 18 2019, @05:59AM (#881670) Journal

    innate sense of what sex you are

    I never experienced that "innate sense" and don't believe others do, either. Sense of what sex you are is a made up thing.

    People make all kinds of mistakes. What makes you think everyone can answer correctly whether they're woman or man?

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @09:42AM (4 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday August 18 2019, @09:42AM (#881696) Journal
      So you don't feel you're one sex or the other?

      The only reason you don't fall out of bed at night is your sense of proprioception. It's the sense of where your various body parts are in relation to the whole and your environment. It's so deeply ingrained that people don't even notice it, but for the few who don't have it, their various limbs can just move at random if they don't keep an eye on them.

      One electrician with defective proprioception looked away from his work, and ended up touching high voltage equipment and burning his hands off to the elbows.

      When this sense is temporarily impaired, you have sleeping parents who roll onto their babies, killlng them.

      You use this sense all the time, walking, touch typing, reaching sight unseen for the coffee cup, not stabbing yourself in the face with your fork while eating, playing musical instruments, taking a shower , etc.

      It also helps you get around when it's too dark to see. Or you're low vision. It's why you can get dressed in the dark if you don't want to turn on the lights and wake up your s.o. And yet most people don't even know this sense exists. Same as they don't know that they have an innate fixed sense of their sex, even though they know what sex they are.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:02PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @12:02PM (#881714)

        I don't feel it either. The only sense of sex I've gotten has been from society. Other than say, being made fun of, doesn't matter much to me. My consciousness doesn't care, I just want to do what I want to do. Maybe its just that I know the rules are made up and sexuality isn't a huge part of my identity like it seems to be in others.

        • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:00PM (2 children)

          by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:00PM (#881756) Journal
          Ever entertained serious doubts?
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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:40PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:40PM (#881797)

            Lots of people are asexual. But lots, like 2-5%.

          • (Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Monday August 19 2019, @03:48AM

            by Coward, Anonymous (7017) on Monday August 19 2019, @03:48AM (#881955) Journal

            I know whom I'm attracted to, which is what really matters to me. People's gender is a bit like their name. Some get caught up in the subject, many don't. Obviously it's important while having sex, but other gender roles are social constructs.

            Boys get building toys and are expected to be tough. Girls get dolls and are expected to be delicate. That doesn't mean a boy who likes dolls and is too scared to fight is a girl inside, or a girl who likes to build and fight is really a boy. Seems weird that people get medical treatment to try to fit those restrictive social molds.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @07:25AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @07:25AM (#881681)

    that was put to bed years ago

    Actually, a rather small fraction of the population has accepted your version of reality. A larger fraction goes along with your version, just to get along. The remainder of us? We know that you've gotta be nuts to want your pecker chopped off. Or, in the reverse, you would have to be just as crazy to want your feminine parts chopped away, and replaced with some imitation woody.

    It's important that you understand that your world is only a small part of the human world. Your small part of the human world gets an unfair, disproportional amount of attention, primarily because transgenders make a disproportional amount of noise.

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday August 18 2019, @09:48AM (3 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday August 18 2019, @09:48AM (#881698) Journal
      Let's see ... someone who's so cowardly that they can't even put their name to their opinion , trotting out the same arguments APK was using on slashdot the night they disallowed anonymous posts, or real-world doctors who have studied this for decades ... oh, it's SO hard to choose which is right. Not!
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      • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:54PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @03:54PM (#881772)

        Is that a threat?
        I agree with GP, it's nuts. And while publicly normalizing arrant nuttiness like chopping off part of your body may get you virtue signaling points in today's America, I'll use my anonymity to say what I think.
        None of the townsfolk wanted to put their name to saying the emperor was naked either.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:23PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:23PM (#881790)

        If it requires medical treatment it is a disorder, no way around it. And instead of changing the body research should be made to change your brain...

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:29PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 18 2019, @04:29PM (#881793)

          I'll agree with that. Dump out the crazy brain (don't feed it to animals) and put in a sane brain who will appreciate their new body.