Reddit impacted by Alphv ransomware group(d17m4o70dfu80a.cloudfront.net) |
Reddit impacted by Alphv ransomware group(d17m4o70dfu80a.cloudfront.net) |
I’d imagine total despair and frustration right now is quite high. Do they think their CEO is holding Reddit back or taking it forward?
The size seems small to me. Only 80 gigabytes? What happened to all the video and images that Reddit hosts? Not everything is imgur or other sites.
That said, 4.5 million is too much that they are asking. It's only data not IP or trade secrets as far as I know. I think they certainly could get 500k for the deletion. I would hope that they would donate some of that VC pocket change to worthy causes.
Even just the text of comments and submissions is >>80GB per month.
I wouldn't be surprised if the "leak" deliberately excluded this data in favor of more interesting nonpublic data, though.
Surely that can't be true after compression?
It seems from the tone that even Aplhv don't fully know what they have; then again, they are asking for a decent chunk of dough.
r/pics voted to continue with the strike by only allowing posts of pictures of John Oliver. I can see other subs starting such things as well and even if you change out the mods you will have your hands full of people making protest posts.
Somehow I have the feeling some future ML models will have a tendancy to render people that look odly like John Oliver
Several other subs are also doing similar things.
• r/art is running a John Oliver poll.
• r/evilbuildings is running a John Oliver poll.
• r/gifs passed a similar rule.
• r/iPhone is voting on a similar rule for Tim Cook.
However! I remember when the technology sub was caught censoring certain keywords. I remember when video of Hilary being carried out of the 9/11 ceremony was censored. I remember when people posting the maxwellhill theory were shadowbanned, etc.
The code that did things like that might be real interesting to analyze.
Edit: maybe I shouldn't have read that. If any of that is true, and there's even a hint of truth that aswartz found it and that's why we no longer have him here, I'm already getting upset thinking about it. I still remember exactly where I was standing when I read that Aaron was gone, and am still surprised it didn't send me into more of a spiral.
Don't get upset about it. Stay vocal and positive. Everything Swartz believed in and more is still possible, and Huffman's ilk would love for you to forget that.
There's also still the (tiny, imo) chance that all this circumstantial evidence is coincidental. I don't believe that, but it's helpful to remember that fact.
0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_...
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