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like, imagine a conspiracy within facebook, or amazon, or whoever, that decides no matter what the consequences they're going to irretrievably destroy enough data and code that the company is unable to recover how many people would it take, what would that process look like what would the aftermath look like ...and how much money would it take to bribe them to do it? 
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it only takes 1, if its the right person
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Jul 29, 2022 07:03
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add a bug to the facebook code so whenever anyone types a ! in a comment or post it changes it to a ?
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Jul 29, 2022 07:37
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you’d just need to launch the nuclear arsenal at every data center
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Jul 29, 2022 07:44
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lmao those websites are stored in the clouds rockets would go straight thru them
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Jul 29, 2022 07:48
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hack the dns so when people went to facebook.com it redirected to fartbook.com which is an alias for facebook so the actual website doesn’t change but slowly more and more people would notice the url said fartbook and the share price would crumble
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Jul 29, 2022 07:51
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there was that one guy who ran some important city computer system in LA or somewhere who was the only person who knew the password. when he got fired he wouldn’t tell it to anyone and it screwed things up for a while. that’s something to try
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Jul 29, 2022 09:02
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make the company's site goatse except for company employees or when accessing it from the company's own network
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Jul 29, 2022 09:09
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one man can destroy all commercial software. his name, is linux torvalds. i am that man
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Jul 29, 2022 09:34
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the right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world -- da friggen gman
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Jul 29, 2022 13:00
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probably get mr magoo in a datacenter, that dude could cause so many shenanigans!
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Jul 29, 2022 15:06
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probably just one person to gently caress up bgp really really bad
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Jul 29, 2022 15:19
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all it takes is to let a javascript developer anywhere near it
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Jul 29, 2022 15:20
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:all it takes is to let a javascript developer anywhere near it facebook is full of javascript developers and it's doing fine... o wait
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Jul 29, 2022 15:34
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akadajet posted:facebook is full of javascript developers and it's doing fine... o wait lmao
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Jul 29, 2022 16:22
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i'd say five
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Jul 29, 2022 16:23
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I think one dude hosed up one line in a maintenance script for AWS that took like 25% of the internet offline back in 2017, right? so not that many
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Jul 29, 2022 16:38
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the problem is the DR stuff, if you dont get that too, everything just comes back.
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Jul 29, 2022 16:48
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rotor posted:the problem is the DR stuff, if you dont get that too, everything just comes back. still a 50/50 chance of dr actually working i like those odds
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Jul 29, 2022 16:49
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how many people it takes to destroy a major tech company is a very different question than how many it takes to cause a significant service outage
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Jul 29, 2022 16:49
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just one, op
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Jul 29, 2022 16:57
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you for sure need to own the root cert, then tamper with all networking and server firmware so there is a time bomb to brick all infrastructure at one even in that case you could redeploy on another cloud and restore from cold backups in a week if you plan stuff right
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Jul 29, 2022 17:12
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me I’m good at ruining things
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Jul 29, 2022 17:17
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Shaggar posted:probably just one person to gently caress up bgp really really bad that's just an outage though. bgp would eventually get unfucked.
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Jul 29, 2022 18:31
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rotor posted:the problem is the DR stuff, if you dont get that too, everything just comes back. rotor posted:how many people it takes to destroy a major tech company is a very different question than how many it takes to cause a significant service outage yeah i figured the backups would have to be attacked/compromised as well
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Jul 29, 2022 18:33
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i would simply disconnect the internet
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Jul 29, 2022 18:34
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Roosevelt posted:i would simply disconnect the internet 
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Jul 29, 2022 18:35
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one cat to sit on the keyboard and another to "accidentally" jostle the power cord out of the wall
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Jul 29, 2022 19:27
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I would presume a hilarious defect in the version control repo that goes unnoticed for ages that quitely eats away at the codebase. That gets replicated to every user and no has backups other than mirrors of the repo.
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Jul 29, 2022 19:34
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how many people would it take to destroy every major tech company?
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Jul 29, 2022 21:50
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actually I change my mind, you just need one dude to surreptitiously record normal business meeting where the c suite talks about all the crimes they commit
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Jul 30, 2022 01:32
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Perplx posted:actually I change my mind, you just need one dude to surreptitiously record normal business meeting where the c suite talks about all the crimes they commit come on, be realistic
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Jul 30, 2022 05:45
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Gentle Autist posted:one man can destroy all commercial software. his name, is linux torvalds. i am that man
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Jul 30, 2022 21:17
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I’ve got bad news op, it’s likely impossible for most of the big tech cos by purely technical means. most have sufficient backups, redundancy, distributed services that they will eventually come up from any sort of failure. better attack vectors are either cultural or financial. getting the dirt that HR has been hoarding and leaking it strategically might cause an employee revolt that brings a company down. or you could just get elon to bid for it.
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Jul 31, 2022 06:31
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What if someone really senior in the company decides to invest unreasonably heavily in some kind of new technology which makes no sense and nobody wants and is horrible? Maybe that would do some damage.
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Jul 31, 2022 11:12
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Doom Mathematic posted:What if someone really senior in the company decides to invest unreasonably heavily in some kind of new technology which makes no sense and nobody wants and is horrible? Maybe that would do some damage. unfortunately that's still not going to bring a company down overnight, it'll be a long slow death that literally everyone can see coming from miles away that can easily be averted if there's someone sensible at the helm in order to make it really stick that really senior person would have to keep doubling down beyond all reason, and also be functionally immune from being kicked out by someone even more senior
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Jul 31, 2022 11:49
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99% sure I've said this already but I'm going to chop off Mark Zuckerberg's head and penis with a samurai sword, shinobi execution style.
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Jul 31, 2022 12:50
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Huh, I guess I wasn't fully aware of how a shinobi execution worked.
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Jul 31, 2022 15:15
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also if they were so bought-in that they changed the name of their company - that would help
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rotor posted:the problem is the DR stuff, if you dont get that too, everything just comes back. the trick is to corrupt the data slowly over a long enough timescale that dr just recovers slightly less ruined data and doesnt fix anything
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