Ransomware gang BlackCat is likely behind a February attack on the company…
BlackCat announced it would delete the information if Reddit gives it $4.5 million and reverses API price increases.
Now, unlike Christian Selig asking for $10 million to essentially sell Apollo to Reddit, this actually is a threat. Let’s see what Steve Huffman’s response to this is…
Fuck u/spez
At this point, the resignation of Steve Huffman would be the only thing to have me consider potentially coming back.
If nothing of consequence is released, I’ll pay a little more credence to the theories that this is an inside job meant to discredit the opposition. If OTOH the data does show a disturbing level of detail being collected on users, and it exposes Reddit’s secret shadowbanning and deboosting of folks it doesn’t like, it’s going to empower the resistance like nothing else that’s happened yet. Spez is arguably in the self own business but this would take it to brand new heights.
People HATE that deboosting shit. People HATE the idea that the corps track this data to try and get inside your head and see how you think and act, so they can better influence it to their own ends. And right now, it’s no longer really about an app as it is, it’s all about meta. This will be gasoline on the fire.
- They’ll not roll back the api pricing
- Our data will be what is leaked.
I don’t see how this helps anything.
This will get very interesting.
This is probably going to lead to the media accusing the protesters of being hackers.
Yea that’s my takeaway here. To the point given how u/spez has behaved it wouldn’t surprise me if he hired these guys to ‘hack’ him specifically to smear protests.
Then again I’m paranoid so what do I know?
The hack happened in February, long before the protests.
Correct. They said they would hold on to the info and wait for reddit’s IPO.
The info must have informed them that reddit is intentionally tanking to take down gme subreddits.
They know releasing it into their IPO will tank the company so thd threat now of all times makes sense.
The hacker named 4chan will probably take the hit on mainstream media
Could also be the Chinese hacker “Lm Fao”
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