Good for a laugh...are you a hacker??

[Nancy857]

Because all of us here on this site have likely used mega.nz at one point or another, I thought I'd pass this information along; you might get as big a laugh out of it as I did.

Apparently, the young DNC staffer, Seth Rich, who was killed during the Election Season that recently went on in the US is thought by some to be the email leak of the DNC emails. Apparently there is some other person, Kim Dotcom (I have never heard of him) who has been saying that the kid is, indeed, the email leak and that he has proof. Now, I don't know if any of this is true or not but I just caught this "post" tonight and it made me giggle:

Quote:11. It is alleged that Mr Rich’s email account received a verification email from mega.nz. That may be so. But that does not mean that any attempt was made to hack his email account. Literally anyone could have gone to Mega.nz and registered an account there using Mr Rich’s gmail address, which was publicly known. That would then have resulted in Mega sending a verification email to that address. If someone had registered Mr Rich’s email at Dropbox for example, Dropbox would likewise have sent a confirmation link. That has nothing to do with hacking.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1705/S0...dotcom.htm

Who knows who may have plugged this person's email into Mega.nz but apparently, the people close to this young DNC staffer appear to believe that only people in New Zealand (where this Kim Dotcom person is located) are using Mega.nz. Little do they know how many of us use that site.

[Lumos]

Funniest of all is that so very few folks use the word 'hacker' with the correct meaning.

Most have been bamboozled by the MSM to think it is synonymous with 'cybercriminal';
That is incorrect however, as most old-timers in the IT world well know.

However, in terms of correct word usage - one may certainly 'hack off a chunk of meat' which means pretty much what the misusage is intended to mean.

Seems like way too many folks born and raised in the US now speak engish as a second language - with text-speak being their preferred language.