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Quote: the intruder subsequently dumped the stolen data on the dark web, spurring fears among criminals that their identities might be exposed (oh, the irony).
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I'd have thought it unlikely that it was law enforcement: they aren't going to let people know they were there, when they can use the data to monitor activity rather than have the users change everything ASAP.
So "scrawling" “Your data has been leaked” and “This forum has been hacked.” across the home page seems rather counter productive.
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Yes, it does. It leads to the question(s), was that just childish bragging or an attempt to make it look like it is?
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Soon we will see reports about the hackers who hacked the hackers who hacked the hackers.
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So here's my question, if there are EU citizens who had their data stolen, are these dark web sites in violation of GDPR?
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Which could be a way to get them in jail if they got caught - otherwise, what could they be charged of ?
Like Al Capone caught by the IRS.
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There is always room for some poetic justice. 
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"...spurring fears among criminals that their identities might be exposed (oh, the irony)."
What I find so wrong about this is that the criminals could press charges against the hacker and win.
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Hmm. My suspicion would be for a larger organization such as a nation-state firing a warning shot across the bow of the smaller fish.
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no tl;rd? So I didn't rd. You could at least provide a summary. (I will not be rick rolled)
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Quora has a quite a few of 'em as well.
Like one that just popped up in my email "Did the English language originate in America?"
You'd think the name alone would give them a clue, wouldn't you? 
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I'm supposing your Subject question was rhetorical.
From my perspective, the most likely successful remedy to this is find another species to join whilst these ones finish breeding themselves into an evolutionary cul-de-sac and can no longer feed themselves.
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But ... but ... who will sanitize my phone?
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Best practices:
Avoid the need for quantization. Store it within the realm adjacent to "where the person meets the saddle" it will be safe from tampering and air-born pestilence. Left on vibrate, other advantages may become evident.
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"America" is where cultures go to die.
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Didn't someone once say something like (I am quoting from memory, may not be correct to the letter): "USA is the only nation that has gone from barbarism to decadence without passing through a stage of culture"?
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I'd imagine the quote came from some European Far West Asian snob who thinks they have a monopoly on culture. Some sort of squatter's rights mentality where they define the vestigial remnants of the past as "cultural" instead of abandoning them and moving on.
And as for decadence? Damn - just look at their "premier" cuisine - a great big plate with next to nothing on it. How many courses in a meal equates to decadence? Or, in a world with starvation, having tomato fights on a city-wide scale. Celebrate Viking plunder, murder, rape, and pillage! You can draw up your own list (or pretend it doesn't exist). Those lovely cultures have brought us two world wars (so far . . . ).
BOTTOM LINE: Apparently, when it comes to a royal stink, you guys can't smell your own.
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That's cause we're efficient.
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What, England is not in America? and all this time I thought...
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Slacker007 wrote: England is not in America
Only the new[^] part.
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I was curious and found it in Quora ...  , but, nobody knows who asked it.
It seems that everyone has some fun with this question ... , good so,
as it cannot be taken seriously ...
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OK, but did it originate there ? Asking for a friend.
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It reminds me of the people here who think indigenous people from mexico speak a dialect of spanish, as though they were silent before the Spaniards came.
These are "educated" folks, like doctors. My hubby interprets in the medical field and runs into this all the time. Even has tried to educate people about it when they've persisted and it just doesn't stick.
It's like, really?
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