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A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations. The user who posted the data claimed that The New York Times has over 5,000 source code repositories, less than 30 of which are encrypted. The leaked data is said

A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    582·
    5 months ago

    Anything that may help develop better adblockers/paywall bypasses or exposes how/what of our personal information is collected is a win in my book. And this may very well be none of those things.

    • Autonomous User@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      5 months ago

      They only exist when we keep them relevant and we already know we can’t prove it’s private but if it helps some people, that’s good.

    • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
      720·
      5 months ago

      Right, because fuck paying for proper journalism. Everything must be free!

      Remind me again, how does that work?

      • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        5 months ago

        I pay for the NYT, and yet every other screen is a fucking ad (often the same ad repeated over and over). You already have my subscription money, and unless they decide not to be so greedy (haha), their ads get shoved up my pihole.