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People exploited that bug to take out more Bitcoin than they had in their MtGox account. MtGox shut down Bitcoin withdrawals to fix the bug.

Could it be exploited in an attack? Probably.

All you need in order to be exploited is to be using software with 0day exploits. Many known exploits are not public.

On an older site I ran we discovered the same thing and exploited it. We made it easy to find coupons for our product via Google.

People who exploited this group were the most powerful - they would have drugs smuggled in, then build an army of addicts who would do their bidding to get the next fix. It was a really explosive situation.

What I wouldn't do was continue running on an instance that had been exploited and assume I'd successfully cleaned it up.

My tale also underlines the way at-will employment can be exploited as "endless probation". Food for thought for anyone seriously trying to build a tech career.

I think the opposite is true: if someone is working 80 hour weeks they either overcompensate for their lack of skill or are being willfully exploited.

The problem is that this weakness is easily exploited. Writers, motivational speakers, game designers, poets...

Writing it up afterwords sets a bad example for other impressionable young hackers who look up to these guys and will set themselves up for being exploited when they go to work because they think it's expected of them. I couldn't finish the article.

Amazon is actually going out of its way to provide excellent customer service, and is being exploited by a scammer. It is therefore not "Amazon's Scam", but a scam perpetrated against Amazon.

There are infinite ways Google's information asymmetry could be exploited, and most of them would be completely invisible and 100% effective. Thats why I'm glad we have Sergey and Larry running under the banner of "Don't be Evil."

That's called a buffer overflow vulnerability, and it's been well known and exploited for decades; half the patches you see coming down the pipeline used to be for this. Now, there are good ways to protect against buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

This is exploited for the production of aerogel. Normally you can't dry out a gel and have it retain its shape because the liquid/gas interface during evaporation/boiling has enough surface tension to tear apart the microstructure of the gel.

In what possible world is disabling an account that has recently exploited your live product in a very visible way not ok? Remember, you don't have a chance to call a meeting with the C level guys and your community manager - you're one or two guys responding on a weekend.

On the other hand, if you're an employee and not getting paid what you think you're worth, don't jump to the conclusion that you're being exploited or disrespected, and don't jump to the conclusion that you have to leave in order to get market rate. If you're happy with the team and with the work, consider just asking for what you want.

This entire issue is being exploited to get attention for Angela Benton and her new accelerator. I dont think its fair to cast a shadow over the awesome people I have had the opportunity to work with over the last 12 years in this field simply because someone wants to get some press at the expense of others.

Google and Apple execs may shower employees with perks, but at the end of the day, top execs still treat most of their labor like a statistic to be optimized and exploited for maximum value rather than human beings. The only difference is some of the tech companies have realized that happy employees are good employees.

Large swathes of our society think of lying, even when deceiving large swathes of the public, as a kind of sport, and profiting from such lying as a kind of serendipitous fortune to be exploited without conscience, like finding cash on the sidewalk. Such attitudes are shoved in my face when I see exclamations like, "Pictures or it didn't happen!"

I was aiming the comment more at people who choose C/C++ for no good reason to write a user-level app; that app is nearly certain to have memory use errors, and if it has any network or remote interface, chances are they can be easily exploited. I'd like as many people as possible to understand that they can't expect to avoid such errors, any more than one of the most heavily audited pieces of software avoided them.

It's extremely difficult to fight an ignorant public being exploited by a willfully ignorant and sensationalistic media. The likes of Tech Crunch et al who should be in a position to counter such mainstream media reactions and behavior are all too often, unfortunately, jumping right into the fray and showing that they can be just as counter-productive as any big old-media outlets.

Practically everything I read online indicates that if you consider your stock options to have any value at all even in a moderately successful company, you are a major sucker and about to get exploited. Surely this must reduce the quality of the talent pool available to new startups, as the experienced developers conclude that other options are a better use of their time.

A policy of so-called responsible disclosure is a reasonable approach to take when dealing with an established product/service that contains a minor vulnerability, something potentially dangerous but unlikely to be exploited in the immediate future with serious negative effects. In this case, we appear to have a new project run by people who don't know what they're doing, with a glaring vulnerability that had presumably already compromised 80+ people's sensitive credentials and in turn who knows what other sensitive information.

This is basically because pushing up the "noise floor," if you have a lot of potential ideas lurking just below the surface as potential connections you haven't made between concepts, ready to be exploited--they'll get wired together by the non-selective flood of serotonin too. But, unlike the nodes for "the purpleness of music" or what-have-you, these nodes will actually self-reinforce once created--that is, they're useful to have, so you'll keep using them--so they'll stick around, whereas the other synapses will just get their reactivity scaled back down when it turns out how purple a song is doesn't have any causal impact on anything else.