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I Did An Oopsie

I Did An Oopsie
When the news headline meets your actual code... Whoops! This brilliantly pairs a serious news article about SSN theft with what appears to be the culprit's actual implementation. That innocent little loop from 1 to 999999999 is just casually generating and emailing every possible Social Security number to "[email protected]." Nothing suspicious here, folks! Just your average day of accidentally committing federal crimes while trying to pad your GitHub contributions. The perfect balance of "I should probably delete my browser history" and "wait, did I push this to production?"

When Steam Detects Unauthorized Purchases

When Steam Detects Unauthorized Purchases
When your Steam account gets hacked, support suddenly morphs into The Undertaker coming for the hacker's soul. That moment when Valve's customer service transforms from "we'll get back to you in 2-3 business years" to "we've tracked their IP address and dispatched a team." Nothing motivates a company like someone messing with their payment methods.

Git Push Origin Main --Force-With-Lease

Git Push Origin Main --Force-With-Lease
Ah, the classic "change your Git config and push a bug to production" move. It's like framing your coworker for murder, but in code form. This junior dev just performed the digital equivalent of identity theft by changing their Git config to match their senior's name and email, then pushed broken code straight to prod. Now when the blame command runs, it points to the innocent senior dev who's about to have a very confusing conversation with management. Pure corporate sabotage disguised as a rookie mistake. Diabolical.

Naming Your Child After Your Password

Naming Your Child After Your Password
That awkward moment when your kid's teacher can't pronounce "$2Y$10$UgTh9EyUvedMTndo0PvF4.YkZaHx6OsMirqjR6ApgAsnPrRikwBgs" during roll call. On the plus side, absolutely no one is stealing this kid's identity. The ultimate security-minded parent move: not using your kid's name as your password, but using your incomprehensible bcrypt hash as your kid's name. Modern problems require modern solutions.