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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A decade old longread from Wired that also shines a light on how trivial it was to bypass mechanisms of some online services back in the day.

(I am not sure if Wired has this paywalled because I had the BPC extension installed but it opens properly with it).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It opened fine for me so I don't think there's a paywall.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Paywall for me :c

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

bypass paywalls clean works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hopefully companies have got better at protecting against social engineering since 2012.