^^as well as being a repugnant thing to print, that piece wasn't even a good story! like, gawker failing at journalistic ethics is duh, but that thing failed as gossip too
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 09:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Totally unsurprising, though, surely? It's not like it's out of character for Gawker. Are people biting their tongues about the site because a well-liked poster here writes for it?
― She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 09:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Um, no?
via well-liked poster max: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/2010/10/29/gawker-s-non-penetrating-christine-o-donnell-story-makes-a-good-case-for-abstinence.aspx
― caek, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
so nice to hear that im well-liked!
― max, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 15:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
no, you're well, "liked"
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 16:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
read that as asterisks
― caek, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
*likes max*
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're likable enough, max
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 16:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're like, ENOUGH, max
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're like max
― omar little, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
The San Francisco baseball Giants just won the World Series!
max, what word in this sentence is completely superfluous? Hint: The Meadowlands are not in Marin County.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
[Pop star Rihanna participates in the dastardly conspiracy to start Christmas early by appearing at a mall in London to turn on the "Christmas lights," surrounded by "rebellious flowers." Photo via AP.]
someone's overcompensating for a 'british-inflected' burn
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Friday, 5 November 2010 11:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 2, 2010 1:23 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
morbs
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://gawker.com/5690499/an-american-apparel-employee-says-goodbye-dov-charney-is-an-ethical-pervert?skyline=true&s=i
this is p desperate
― rip whiney g weingarten 03/11 never forget (history mayne), Monday, 15 November 2010 23:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
ASSISTANT BACKSTOCK MANAGER
― buzza, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 00:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://gizmodo.com/5690749/
983,440 page views
― markers, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
the power of drudge
― max, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
can tell why lifehacker and gizmodo are the money spinners in this operation
http://lifehacker.com/5693312/make-mashed-potatoes-for-just-two-people
― caek, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't forget about the classic
http://lifehacker.com/5379940/how-to-clean-your-debit-and-credit-cards
― markers, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
good god
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
making mashed potatoes for 2, cleaning their credit cards, wow, these must be the most efficient, productive, successful people out there and not desperate shut-ins
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
lifehacker is so funny
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
there is one really useful article for every five instances of ocd insanity
Next take the eraser (we prefer Pink Pearl erasers, but the one on the end of a pencil will do just fine) and gently erase/rub the magnetic strip on the back. It will remove any gunk that's built up over time.
jesus
fucking
christ
― goole, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
pageviews on the mashed potatoes article: 13,433
― markers, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
will it? will it do just fine? i don't have to run out and pick up a three-pack of Pink Pearls, you're letting that one go? or should i spring for the bulk box of 36, because the offgassing of retail plastic packaging causes the rubber to age inconsistently? huh? can i get a fucking answer over here?
― goole, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you use the eraser on a dixon ticongeroga itll irreparably destroy your credit score
― markers, Thursday, 18 November 2010 19:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
gonna try the credit card cleaning trick on my library card, will report back
― mc souleye (brownie), Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Haha, I thought that was going to be like "wiping out your debt."
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 18 November 2010 20:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
mashed potatoes for two could so easily be a jezebel article
― A B C, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
you make it and reserve 1.85 servings for yourself and .15 for your cat, then you f5 jezebel and read a daily mail repost about how men are repulsed by fatasses (with two sentences of "my third-wave ladies can you believe this shit?" commentary) thus inciting a fit of self-loathing which perpetuates the cycle of #groupthink
― A B C, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw i am totally going to try an erasing on the mag strip of my debit card--that shit is fucked up
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't try it on your library card unless you want the RIDE OF YOUR LIFE
― mc souleye (brownie), Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 November 2010 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://gawker.com/5712646/advisory-notice-no-action-required
― markers, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
max have you been compromised??!
― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
FYI: That post linking to a torrent of our source code was not written by me. We've been hacked.41 minutes ago via webRetweeted by 22 people
AdrianchenAdrian Chen
― markers, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.mediaite.com/online/worse-than-previously-thought-gawker-content-management-system-hacked/
― markers, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
max PLEASE REPORT IN so we know you're ok
― tickle me imo (s1ocki), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
have we heard whether or not gawker has activated reston 5
― literally the worst thing that ever happened on this planet (reddening), Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^ post/display name
― markers, Sunday, 12 December 2010 22:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
~~~THIS IS ANONYMOUS POSTING FROM MAXS HACKED ILX ACCT~~~
SLOCKI UR NEXT~~~~GET READY 4 SOME REAL HACKER ISH
*DONS GUY FAWKES MASK*
― max, Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
plz dont go after slocki he's just a canadian who got mixed up with the wrong sort of blogger
― kanellos (gbx), Sunday, 12 December 2010 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Due to the leak of the GANJA framework from within our company
GANJA
― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Monday, 13 December 2010 00:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
This story is somewhat entertaining. It’s also a legendary clusterfuck.
BTW: Gawker still hasn’t notified users. WTF.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
The discussion on Hacker News that's a worthwhile read:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998642
Some choice quotes:
This is serious. I just checked out the torrent with the text file of the 200,000 cracked passwords. I searched for @me.com account and logged into someone's apple account. It was possible for me to order stuff via their account. I quickly emailed the guy to let him know to change his password. Gawker needs to take responsibility of this situation and email everyone in their database.
Edit 2: Wow: I know a lot of people on this list. I'm letting them know, and recommend that others scan on behalf of friends and family as well. I've been told that there has not been active communication; wish gawker would confirm either way.
A quick search shows staff email addresses at techcrunch, apple, microsoft, google, goldman sachs, etc.
All the usernames and passwords for users with ✧@lifehac✧✧✧.c✧✧, @gawker.com, etc.} email addresses in the torrent (plaintext, not hashed). The torrent claims Nick Denton’s password was an 8-character sequence of even numbers, and that he used it everywhere. (Edit in reply: The hackers used this on e.g. his Twitter account IIRC so it wasn’t truncated to 8 characters.) Some of them are even '11223344' or a substring of the author’s username!
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
obv this will be seen more seriously than a simple ddos attack & might lead to some prosecution down the road
nice for max to have a night off, tho
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
For Gawker? Or “Gnosis”?
I suspect it won’t be “Gnosis” since it’s evident from this dump that Gawker’s engineering and I.T. department is shockingly amateurish (e.g. using DES hashes and running everything off of an individual DB schema). Is Gawker liable for their incompetence and bizarrely deficient security practices?
We protect our data with UNIX Standard hash encryption method crypt(3), which is absolutely 100% impossible to crack.
LOLZ. Goodnight.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
FYI: http://undertow.jedsmith.org/gawker/
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is Gawker liable for their incompetence and bizarrely deficient security practices?
maybe? i don't know the law about this kinda thing, but i suspect if a bank leaves $100,000 lying out on its tables, it's still not okay for you to steal it
― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 December 2010 05:51 (2 years ago) Permalink