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Gloomy-Restaurant-42 Apr 9, 2026 +89

Now I don't feel so paranoid about keeping all of my sensitive data in a superDUPERcomputer. Sometimes you get what you pay for.

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justfortheese Apr 9, 2026 +14

Well, that's until a super duper hacker comes along!

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Gloomy-Restaurant-42 Apr 9, 2026 +6

A superduperhacker? That sounds ridiculous.

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ApprehensiveGold2773 Apr 9, 2026 +14

Behold, China's superduperhacker number one, w1nn13th3p00h

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Gloomy-Restaurant-42 Apr 9, 2026 +10

Oh, bother!

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NutsyFlamingo Apr 9, 2026 +7

That’s why I always find all the traffic lights in the pictures before I open so I know it’s safe

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Gloomy-Restaurant-42 Apr 9, 2026 +2

How do we know the traffic lights themselves are safe? What if clicking each single square that contains a bicycle actually downloads a malicious worm DDOS superdupervirus? These are questions we would be fools to ignore.

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hippodribble Apr 9, 2026 +5

Have you ever seen a worm riding a bike? I think not.

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Gloomy-Restaurant-42 Apr 9, 2026 +3

A worm, no. I did once see a group of worms writhe into a pair of lycra shorts and do 30 minutes next to me in a spin class. Yes, they went faster than me. 😳

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Late_Blooomer Apr 9, 2026 +3

“Sensitive Data” gay p*** hard drive

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Gloomy-Restaurant-42 Apr 9, 2026 +2

You think I got that kinda memory around the house? Nah, that's all on the cloud. And bookmarks. And browser history. And a handwritten log of good URLs.

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DissKhorse Apr 9, 2026 +1

[This is like a trace buster buster.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VY_xxL2jL0)

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visionsofblue Apr 9, 2026 +1

You should be using a Super Dee Dooper Dee Booper Special Deluxe a la Peter T. Hooper computer if you really want security.

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Cogitoergosumus Apr 9, 2026 +36

8 petabytes of data is basically the whole kit and koboodle

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hotlavatube Apr 9, 2026 +6

Well it's a certainly large amount of data, though I've known astronomy and volcanology institutions that collect data on that order of magnitude on a regular basis. For example, a high-density 3D seismic survey of land can be on the order of 1-10 Pb of data.

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gta0012 Apr 9, 2026 +11

It's just not a realistic amount tbh. How long do you think a transfer would take to move those files off site? That's assuming this deep deep system is connected to the Internet with no monitoring to see ALL 8-10 PB being transferred over months. Walk out the building with a USB key? Lol how big is the trench coat this dude wore. I just can't fathom how this could be real.

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Ok-Way7122 Apr 9, 2026 +19

Something doesn't add up - the "hacker" did not download 10 peta**bytes** because if they had a 1 gigabit connection they'd need 3 years to get that amount of data in a country with notoriously poor connections when the quoted time was 6 months, again, they did not have 6gbps download speed. Inside job.

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withlovefromspace Apr 9, 2026 +1

I agree that it's unrealistic but they could have dumped the data in parallel to many different connections/servers/other compromised computers.

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sweetbeems Apr 9, 2026 +6

I’m sure it’s the amount of data that was compromised and could’ve been downloaded, not actually downloaded. Or the journo is a liar

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Squirll Apr 9, 2026 +6

I do not think ive ever seen that phrase written out and I apparently did not realize how it was spelled out.

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GigaSoup Apr 9, 2026 +21

Neither did the person you're replying to because it's caboodle not koboodle

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fluid_alchemist Apr 9, 2026 +3

How many units are in a caboodle?

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jaspersgroove Apr 9, 2026 +2

Oodles

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Squirll Apr 9, 2026 +3

Still so unknown to me I couldn't tell which one of you is correct! lol Bone Apple tea!

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HugsForUpvotes Apr 9, 2026 +3

Is that 8000 terabytes?

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mixxituk Apr 9, 2026 +1

I don't know if 8 is both the kit and caboodle Maybe one caboodle and half a kit at best

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djflamingo Apr 9, 2026

Nah, i recently met a sys admin of what was the most powerful computer on earth and they do petabytes PER RUN. They have to use a node of the supercomputer just to manage the main clusters memory use.

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Candid_Koala_3602 Apr 9, 2026 +14

8 pentabytes of purely distilled information- damn imagine an AI with access to that as its training.

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jinzokan Apr 9, 2026 +9

May you live in interesting times....

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RarelyReadReplies Apr 9, 2026 +6

Whoever said that is an a******... I just want to be able to have a decent quality of life. Sincerely, Every underpaid worker

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Bubbles_2025 Apr 9, 2026 +3

The Kimberly-Clark Warehouse worker said something similar and felt underpaid. He went the wrong direction though.

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jinzokan Apr 9, 2026 +2

I hear ya. That's why we need to promote good politicians actually trying to make a difference and vote out these greedy corporate cum socks.

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Candid_Koala_3602 Apr 9, 2026

So it goes.

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cosmicrae Apr 9, 2026 +1

The worlds first Anime AI /s

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PostGamePong81 Apr 9, 2026 +16

Caveat - I know nothing about computers or hacking, but this news and the Claude AI news about finding 20 year old security vulnerabilities seems to be quite the coincidence. \*\*\* What’s most surprising about the vulnerability Nicholas shared is how little oversight Claude Code needed to find the bug. He essentially just pointed Claude Code at the Linux kernel source code and asked, “Where are the security vulnerabilities?” I have so many bugs in the Linux kernel that I can’t report because I haven’t validated them yet… I’m not going to send \[the Linux kernel maintainers\] potential slop, but this means I now have several hundred crashes that they haven’t seen because I haven’t had time to check them. —Nicholas Carlini, speaking at \[un\]prompted 2026

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DigitaIBlack Apr 9, 2026 +15

That's a pretty big flipping caveat. It very well could be a coincidence... a vast majority of CVEs are not discovered by AI. Yes, AI could have been involved but it's a stretch to immediately link a hack to AI. It's worth noting that: 1. People have also started using AI to scan for vulnerabilities to help prevent this. Especially open source projects where there's a million eyeballs on a lot of the libraries etc. And as for the closed source stuff... you can't exactly just point Claude at it like he did with the Linux kernel. 2. >I have so many bugs in the Linux kernel that I can’t report because I haven’t validated them yet… I’m not going to send \[the Linux kernel maintainers\] potential slop This is also worth noting. Yes, AI is a great tool to find vulnerabilites but it spits out a ton of nonsense. Many companies are killing or reworking their bug bounty program in response to the flood of AI nonsense they're getting.

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PostGamePong81 Apr 9, 2026 +1

Yeah, I am not saying it is AI, just that I noticed this happy little coincidence today and found it interesting. I gave the caveat so people understood that I am just an overage joe who read two interesting articles!

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DigitaIBlack Apr 9, 2026 +1

Right but I wouldn't say it's even "quite the coincidence"

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DigitaIBlack Apr 9, 2026 +3

...why can't it be a coincidence?

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8hotsteamydumplings Apr 9, 2026 +3

Do a Omar and sell it back to them

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Chucktayz Apr 9, 2026 +3

Be cool if someone hacked and released the Epstein files

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H1Ed1 Apr 9, 2026 +4

This is unsurprising after living in China and seeing their government websites and sofwares still being run on and optimized for internet explorer.

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Misfiring Apr 9, 2026 +2

Don't they use their own browser there?

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osoBailando Apr 9, 2026 +1

how much?? and in what form of payment?? *ofc asking for a friend 🤪

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Madismas Apr 9, 2026 +1

I would have thought the going pri e was tens of millions.

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kosmokramr Apr 9, 2026 +1

China got a taste of their own medicine

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Old_news123456 Apr 9, 2026 +1

Can nobody hack the Epstein files?! Seriously? Hack and release that!!!

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Ok_Document_9713 Apr 9, 2026 +4

About time, sick of hearing only about US being breached. But its also probably because China limits what the media can actually report.

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tweakwerker Apr 9, 2026 +14

China has been reporting about the US hacking China for a long time. It's the US media that rarely reports on it so that the US can continue looking like an innoncent victim.

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weedmode420 Apr 10, 2026

Shouldn't you be worrying about your fuel shortages? Lol, imagine needing to deploy your military already

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madasfire Apr 9, 2026 +1

Did they try turning it off and then back on?

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