Hackers are getting away with more and more stuff.
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Hackers are getting away with more and more stuff.
Though, internet still needs hackers lol.
Not necessarily I don't think, just for piracy. Good hackers are alright but bad ones are a pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebora2007
Especially if some hacker uses your card and locks your account.
I'm not really worried about any shit like that. If my card / ssn get used for anything suspicious the credit will be erased and I will be credited any lost money back to my card.Quote:
Originally Posted by Domo
Its so hard to steal identities nowadays. Only idiots get their identity stolen, and its even hard for them to do that now.
Blackhats haven't gotten better, just more numerous which is why you see companies with crappy security getting hit frequently now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron
There's no "good hackers" and "bad hackers" and even if there were, crackers(piracy) definitely wouldn't qualify as "good". Ever think of the companies that put hard work into their product just to have it be stolen? Or what about the limits that are placed on the legitimate customers to keep pirates out?Quote:
Originally Posted by Domo
Hackers are part of the tech world. There's no one to blame other than the companies with the crappy security. The company should be held responsible for the user data lost because it was their fault. The hackers didn't get in with anything that couldn't have been blocked. The exception would be if a company was hacked with a 0day on an application built by a reliable company. Then the developers of the application would be partially responsible(the company could have chosen another application in most cases).
Hackers are never here for the "good" cause, even though in your point of view it is a good cause (getting free games/movies/music) hacking is a very bad thing. But they are the reason why we get free stuffs and we gotta admit, we love having those.
Well may as well not be good for the companies that create those products but good for us. If it wasn't for piracy we would have to buy everything which most of us can't afford.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebora2007
Well I thought piracy is what you meant by the "internet needs hackers"
Hackers are bad, But there are a few "good" hackers. Attacking big company's to me isn't bad, They have plenty of cash and should have the experience to stop hackers in the first place.
Attacking small or just a one man team is wrong, From being small and at the bottom that states there more new to the whole thing. Smaller company's also make everything a lot more affordable. They need to feed there family, But the big company's bath in money.
Tough luck to anyone that uses credit cards on steam or ps3.
Steam forum is separated from steam service,I think everyone is safe :p...kindof....
OFFTOPIC:
I thing it's a set-up from valve to delay half life 3 even more..... :P
xbox live is next. then after that, it's bill gates's home
From what I have read, you usually accept payment through a third party merchant service, which may or may not allow the user's data, i.e. credit card, to be accessible without having to enter it each time manually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tishiablo
If steam is their own merchant service, and the database was compromised, then a two-way encrypted version of your credit card number was compromised.
I have not dealt with payments through anything but paypal in quite some time, but I do not remember and have not heard of the method you are talking about. I have also not heard of an SSL certificate being used like that. Although, I understand that this - obviously - does not mean that it does not exist.
I am not familiar with directly dealing with Visa when accepting payments, but a quick look through of their site brings me to:
How It Works | Merchants | Visa USA
Piracy is worse for companies and legitimate customers than hacking in a general sense. Hacking can be pretty much completely mitigated, but piracy is nearly impossible to stop because the user actually owns the product and can copy it easily in many cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Domo
I just hate company's who are like well... we lost all your information and your probably being robbed... but it's ok because i apologize and it's not my money. How about giving us free games and stuff to make up for there problems. Since we do invest in these company's because we trust them... or so we still say.
oh man this is too funny for reasons you all don't understand. I'm in tears right now.