Dunno. Was just a big open text dataset. All with hire dates. It’s possible it was archival which explains the telnetting being so easy, but every col was filled with plenty of young DOBs.

In my friends defence, this was performed by receiving the instructions from their US friend in their IRC “hacker clan” who discovered the hack. My friend doubted it but then got in and very quickly left. Despite being performed at their university’s lab on their network, the friend still got a visit from federal officers from their country who said, quote, “You’re not in trouble, but the path you’re on leads to a bad life.”

Friend now works in cyberfraud. Whatever whitehatting for a living is called these days… The same simple slip ups, routes, and tricks leading to breaching have not changed, just the protocols in which they’re done with.

A “friend” of mine got 200,000 NASA employees data including SSNs, pay accounts, etc. from an entirely unguarded Telnet door in 2002.

You’d be surprised how many doors there are the larger a building gets that never bothers to upgrade security until an incident happens.

Pretty sure it was very much a “We forgot we even had that door still” situation.

He’s getting worse at his basic signature.

It’s this and many other things that have led me to believe an alternate canon where Superman is just a real dummy.

Krypton didn’t blow up, his parents just did a Joe Dirt on him. Dumbass probably moved one of their moons as well so they just left him on the church doorstep called Earth.

So, basically there’s the internet, then there’s the US internet. People will start moving to China for more freedoms.

They’re trained off masses of shit with no regulation. For all we know the idea is from a mash of 2011 Reddit comments and an 2016 news article about public health in The Netherlands.

LLM control is just trial and error guardrails applied like band-aids, many of them contradicting each other.

This is what happens when technology is rushed to implementation before governments can react with regulation.

If they’re based in the US, they have to.

The rest of the world doesn’t give a fuck about US executive order, so obviously life goes on and the places aren’t name changed in the real world.