City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2046614

Mayor said data was unusable to criminals; researcher proved otherwise.

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assembly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

How do these people even navigate life if they are blaming the security researcher for using public tools to download data from a public site? Is it “hacking” because the URl looks “funny” and ends in .onion?

OppositeOfOxymoron@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y

Upvoting for Streisand Effect. ;)