So, at DEF CON, they had set up a server with SQL injection vulnerabilities and had issued specific instructions on how to use that to alter tables. And, this person went one stepped further and DROP'ed some tables.
I am going to say whoop de doo!
The headline is definitely misleading.
> I’m still not particularly interested in a tech career, but one day I hope to be in a position to prevent something like this from happening in real life.
This is a terrible story for Politico or any professional news website to have published. By the author's very description, this was a mock exercise involving a specially-configured MySQL server, not one that uses the same settings as the Florida state website. The article is basically a teenager bragging about how he learned some basic SQL syntax.
This story is as silly and irrelevant as a 17-year-old bragging about how he fooled the mainstream media by running wget on www.nytimes.com, using find-and-replace to change all instances of "Democrats" to "poop-heads", and loading his local copy of nytimes.com on his laptop browser. Yet it will be used to stoke FUD in the many technically illiterate readers out there.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 14.4 ms ] threadI am going to say whoop de doo!
The headline is definitely misleading.
> I’m still not particularly interested in a tech career, but one day I hope to be in a position to prevent something like this from happening in real life.
The world is lost without you.
He forgot to mention his epic escape from the cyber police.
This story is as silly and irrelevant as a 17-year-old bragging about how he fooled the mainstream media by running wget on www.nytimes.com, using find-and-replace to change all instances of "Democrats" to "poop-heads", and loading his local copy of nytimes.com on his laptop browser. Yet it will be used to stoke FUD in the many technically illiterate readers out there.