definitely

They've never been seen as a trusted site. That's the joke

I see your point, but that must have been partially untrue for people to be highly surprised by the leak

@@vedvod have you seen Zuckerberg's quote about people being stupid giving him their personal data? Data leaks are the least of their problems.

That's funniest joke I laughed at hahahah

*Avengers theme intensifies*

*Kazoo Avengers theme intensifies*

Too late. Disney already did and claimed copyright.

Hey Ken M get back to us soon buddy

@@snoopyguy21 Disney owns Marvel

**shudders**

Can't remember.

+ToCzegoSzukasz But if the semi colon weren't there...you WOULD remember. Ooooooohh...scaaaaaary.

+ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ or the Greek question-mark on line 6.

+Coty0010 When you accidently tapped the Caps Lock key instead of A on line 2 and didn't notice it until you were done making that 53-line rewrite.

It's incredible, how it's intense enough to warrant concern, yet generally turns out neutral or positive in its consequences and seems...just barely plausible. Granted, his "Ganymede 2030" talk and the "copyrighted memory/personality" conceptuals he did are a touch hard to set in stone or conceivably believe can happen, but they're not *that* implausible, and this one is strangely realistic.

Take my like good sir, you made me laugh

fancy guy _using italics on KZfaq_

@@frozenheartedgiant8330 XD u2

Nice

This feels like a line which could actually have been in the video

Alliteration is always awesome

+Ryan Gilbert assonance is vowel sounds, alliteration consonants

Tripple Ds are just too big. ;)

:DDD :DDB *_double butted_*

Crick1952 Alliterations are always awesome

It’ll happen again if quantum computers ever happen

@@talongreenlee7704 Elaborate?

Shubham Pawar all computer security is based on how hard it is to guess really really big numbers and quantum computers are really really good at doing just that. A powerful enough quantum computer can break any encryption almost instantly.

@@talongreenlee7704 Which is why quantum cryptography is being developed.

Xelphonential how does that work?

+Mikat Tech at Google pushes his chair back. Goes to play foosball, having averted yet another Customer Realization Cascade.

Mikat same here. Got half way through and went to download a backup of my blog 😁

Yup. Hahah.

So it didn't actually happen?

@@Chris_Cross Is this real or not?

This is just waaaaaaayyyyyy to good....

*Yeah, you need some proper grammar lessons too.

BRACEY12345 Punctuation is what he needs, not grammar.

Uku Sibul - The asterisk (*) denotes the response was a correction to a preceding comment. Is capitalisation a grammar issue, or something else? And discerning between to/too is arguably an issue of both grammar and spelling.

Uku Sibul He never said it was a grammar mistake, he simply corrected the sentence.

Totally!

Peteris Rudzitis the new episode of South Park kinda covered this

nah not really. it really really really fits a "black mirror" episode though.

Agreed

Which one?

irony overdose

Spoiler alert ffs

george hine don't read the comments before the video

Lynx_ it's not real ex dee

I read this comment just as Tom said it

+legoboyz3! Didn't expect to see you here

That's what they want you to think.

Didn't think you'd be here.

I don't get it. Why?

I mean, if aliens...

FireSiku Again, 3 years on!

Yep

4 years

6 now

Yup! I thought it was real and I was like "Huh? did I sleep through that day or something?" but then I read the description :p

It took me a while to figure out, too. I mean I did once completely miss the hockey world championship (as in I had no idea whatsoever that it was happening until 2 days after it had ended) but IT news of this magnitude? I think I would have noticed.

Me too

@@hellterminator didn't even know there was a world hockey championship. Used to play in school though, hated playing on the turf, scraping knees

Same

10:20 mins on,, and i read the comments and the description , i was worried.. and surpriced..

Yes, although it is a bit of click bait to not say its fiction in the title.

The first time I watched this, I didn't realize it was fictional. I already told several people about this.. Great.. now I gotta tell them it was fictional. Sounded so plausible.

And I was wondering why I've never heard of this.

GhostInTheShell29 Me too, only after searching the web for corroboration and not finding anything except the text of this video I noticed that it was fictional.

The purge works

BurntToast it would work

BurntToast It just works dude

As they say _the purge works_

Precisely

rm -rf /

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /*

drop database sure is such a powerful sentence

@@tobybartels8426 such terrifying spell

Someone got fired that day.

"Geeky horror fiction" is the best phrase I can think of to describe it, mostly because of how shockingly feasible it is.

5 year old comment I know, but thanks anyway for a new word of the day for me! Surprising too, considering the connotation of the word, that it isn't in the V for Vendetta monologue.

1: changing your password doesn't help this attack scenario 2: random passwords are bad passwords unless they are also long and have caps, numbers, and special characters, in which case they are not rememberable. If you want to be secure, you need a password manager.

May I ask what this vulnerability is?

***** That problem is pretty trivial actually. The application itself can only check for updates on its own, not download them, so the worst that could happen on that side would be that a user thinks he needs an update when he doesn't. The website also uses HTTP, which means that a MitM attack could send the user a malicious file, which can be checked against by looking at the certificate. I don't really think it's a security issue when you're just a bit careful. Sidenote: I just love how Softpedia makes it sound like KeePass could update itself or that KeeFarce can just unlock any file. Really great journalism.

The specific article is actually not relevant, a simple google search shows more than enough results (including the note on the official website). You're right, even though and especially since you use a password manager, you still have to be wary of malware. Just goes to show that you should always be careful with your passwords and the security of your PC. I'm quite curious how much actual spyware there is for client side password managers. You'd think that the cross section between the people who constantly get their PC infected and the users of password managers is rather small, but there might also be a false sense of security there which leads to more carefree behaviour. I do think that your file is more secure, as long as the editor you're using doesn't write unencrypted backups or something terrible like that. However I personally prefer my password manager, since it's better suited to handle large amounts of accounts as well as giving me the ability to more easily find weaknesses in my pseudonymity. The tradeoff between convenience and security is worth it to me.

+Politiekman ben je Nederlands?

To be honest it is a remarkably smart way to film and format a presentation for the Internet.

Oh gob

Oh gob

Oh gob

oh gob

TristanBomb That's because I only added the (Fictional) a couple of weeks ago, after people didn't notice the (Fictional) in the description!

***** Ah, that makes sense.

***** I was wondering why I didn't remember this xD

+Tom Scott Change the title back so we can continue trolling people

+Tom Scott We must prepare 17 sacrifices a day to feed the holy Google.

Sobsz hold on I recognise your username.

I used to work in tech support for a while and that's actually what some people told me

"Maybe you should have been paying me 50000 dollars an hour then"

do i know you

@@pandaqwanda sona a

What if, I want to make a boolean function. And it will have to take some time to code it. Visual Studio will keep saying it, and so I just add it. Though sometimes, I do forget to remove it, and wonder why the false statement isn't working.

Coding Hub i always have "functions that would return a bool but i wanna write them later" always default to false ^^

What you should do is set a "Dev_Variable1" as true and a "Dev_Variable2" as False. Whenever you want to do that boolean stuff you throw a reference to the Dev variables. Before you commit, delete the Dev Variables and see what throws errors.

Your IDE/linter should warn you of the dead code, and you should have automated tests that would detect that your code isn't running correctly.

What if the return: true; was for "If the user was logged OUT"?

Antler ourmine are back (read the description)

Oh hi

Only if you know the username?

A screen name can differ significantly from a username and that is at least something.

but the part after /user/ in your yt channel's URL (if you have a pre-googleplus account) is sufficient for logging in, is it not?

or the email, so if you ever sent a email to me, i can login in your account, them go to your blizzard account , reset the password and erase all your characters, it is even easier to erase your yout tube account

All of Google. One account.

Or in the title

Nathan T This.

Why? Watching all this not knowing that's fictional was quite amazing for me :D

Dmitry Dronov Why? Because I ended up telling people about it and now they all think that Google screwed up and all this crazy stuff happened and they didn't hear about it. Only AFTER that did I realize it was fictional.

***** lol

I can neither confirm nor deny this.

I use one that technically no longer exsists

sigaint

Vivaldi mail?

Hotmail?

***** idk, they were careless before, there was a program from google offering 5k for any bugs found in software, and there was a command left in the code from the early days of KZfaq, which would allow for the removal of any video, or all videos at once, and that was found not too long ago, by a guy who luckily was nice enough to reveal it to google rather than the rest of the world. That, my friend, is carelessness lol.

***** What is the gain by killing people? Terrorists see it as a benefit because it scares people, if people see it as for the greater good, whatever their motive, they do it. You sir, seem to be a believer that 9/11 was an inside job, because you can't see past monetary motive. It was performed because they thought they were doing something for the greater good. No one benefited from it... why can't you understand that? I'm taking cs50 classes, so I'm still new to coding, but I have an understanding, and coding has very little to do with your argument, that they have a "database" which again, is entirely speculation on at which point did they obtain this backup. I understand your argument, it is just wrong lol, put simply.

Nate Von Hartleben 1. If KZfaq didn't have a backup database, then every video that is taken down (let's say copyright claim) would be incapable of being restored (copyright claim challenged and succeeded). Yet they are capable of restoring videos, therefore they have a backup database. You saying "that they have a "database" which again, is entirely speculation on at which point did they obtain this backup," is completely ignorant. 2. I agree that coding and having a backup doesn't go hand-in-hand. You don't need a backup, but you would be stupid not to have one. 3. I do agree that monetary value isn't the sole reason. That still doesn't excuse you jumping straight to 9/11. You simply needed to mention other motivations upon which people can act upon. ***** 4. Other motivations people can act upon: A. To cause panic B. Just to prove that they can (whether to self or to friends) C. Try and get people off the computers and into the real world (though that would require the shutting down of more than just a single website) D. Other (that isn't listed and I haven't thought of) E. All of the above rolled into a nice little package. I find this conversation interesting, because it went somewhere I didn't mean for it to go. But now it's getting tiresome. Can you please stop the discussion?

You could have the access to the videos removed rather than removing the videos altogether, nullifying the need for a backup. And i think my statement was misunderstood, I meant that we didn't know at which point a backup system would have been implemented, although it probably would've been implemented when the value of the company was seen as significant, meaning before that point, there was a point of significant value the company had, and also that line of code allowing for it's deletion also existed. To explain my jump to 9/11, it was a simple reference to make, easily the most recognizable act of terrorism in at least American history. With this comment I say my last piece, and will respectfully close my argument.

Death's Heir /)

"And thus a pandemic was born...."

@@SharpAssKnittingNeedles 23*

PhazonSouffle See you down an Arizona bay.

+Woodside I'm already here, it's unusually cold right now for some reason.

Backup and delete

realscapegoat so a defender

@@kito4525 Google has already done the backup for you (Both in this scenario and in real life), so this is the smartest plan in a situation like this.

Ahaha my accounts have nothing on them but shitposts. And I have zero personal information

@@sirrivet9557 ALL your accounts? Keyword: ALL. If you leave a single account with personal info, then you're toast.

An great movie. An great move?! AN GREAT MOVIE?!?

Yes, if you write in all caps, the indefinite article is obviously always AN, otherwise it would sound stupid when read/screamed out. Don't tell me you didn't know this basic rule⸮

How the hell would you shoot it?? A bunch of people, staring at there phones, going "Oh no! Oh NO! OH NO!!" for two hours?? Good novel, sure. But I can think of hundreds of ways this would make a horrible movie.

Henry Lange This would make an even better book.

Henry Lange welp they makin it into a movie m8

This is the only scenario in which DDOS is actually a defender mechanism.

Well, by now there has been at least one major outage for both Google and Facebook, and neither had *too* much of an effect on other sites. Sure, the scenario in the video would be worse, but not too much worse I'd guess.

+Liou David I would read that.

I would love to read that

YES! i would SOOO read it

Idk how to read

Digital Fortress by Dan brown. instead of Google being hacked, it was the NSA

+NiteDasher So defense against the offensive...but then be offensive. Nice. Actually, not.

+Teddy Frozevelt I don't use Gmail ;)

Hahahaha.

***** Idc about my youtube, and my google and I don't have a Gmail account, why would I?

***** sooooo?

Well, I have pretty much abandoned my gmail. I only use it for youtube comments. So uh, I probably wouldn't be effected too much; despite not using facebook. Ye...

Lilly S You know Google owns KZfaq, right?

woodfur00 Yes, but the worst anyone can do on my youtube is do hate comments or delete it.

Lilly S But would you have a secure way to communicate with people?

woodfur00 Text. Or Calling them. I don't really talk to people though unless I'm with them in person. Sometimes I don't even go on youtube, so I might not even notice xD

Why do you dress like him

@@osdever LMAO

@@osdever Sally, Tom, Jay Foreman and all these people belong to the same circles. (why do you think they dress like him though?)

it's been 2 months could you tell us already mate

hahahahahahahaha

Knock knock

Sure, they can totally just hack Google. That's defiantly doable

***** Fair enough

Unless someone goes crazy or devotes a ridiculous amount of their life to ruining your company, it's a pretty safe way to run things.

In my organization we have the O5 Council, but if you figure out any of their actual identities you get given amnesia meds and fed to a giant superintelligent crocodile.

_scp 762 has escaped containment_

@@williamwhitehouse8741 how can scp 762 escape containment? its just an inanimate coffin

@@ceruchi2084 Why would they give the person amnesia meds if they're going to feed them to a crocodile anyway? Is it so that you can't tell the crocodile?

aged like fine milk

The Real Flenuan Yeah, when he said Facebook was used for trusted communication :D

The Real Flenuan I looked pretty much through whole thing wondering pretty much all the time "how the heck have I missed this thing?". Even tried to search for Christiansens current state until figured out that something is not quite right :)

The Real Flenuan it took me watching it for a second time to figure it out.

Cameron Webster Haha, damn…

I’d love it if he made nerdy onion stories, it would be great

is this referring to a real event?

Also wondering

Yes it is. There was a huge "outage" of all Facebook systems some time ago because there was a Problem with their DNS configuration. I remember it very fondly because I hate FB with all my heart and rejoice whenever something bad happens to them ^^@@thatonecookie242

Same, friends are worrying if we should change our password immediately.

The single point of failure is the same: The Login API. Just instead of a massive breach of privacy, we got the most impactful DoS against google's whole infrastructure.

There was a crash? Why didn't I know?

@@albertjackinson just a few hours of outage on Dec 14, 2020. It wouldn't cause a glitch on your experience if not online that time

The time when Google and youtube were taken down for a few hours for updates? I'm actually surprised at how I don't know about it.

Good thing I slept through it.

How come I don't know anything about it? Can you please explain what happened?

puellanivis at least point 3 was mentioned in the story. The fictional code change also ruled out two-factor authentification and other checks

danielcw Different code, different owners. One person cannot unilaterally remove both the password and two-factor authentication without at least one other person approving the checkin... which in this scenario would require two people with malicious intent. ... also, it wouldn't make sense to make this change when everyone is in the office, so we're talking about a person who is already in London/Dublin, and thus wouldn't need to take a plane flight to Europe. Which also means the two actors with malicious intent would have had to orchestrate their on-calls shifts to overlap. Honestly, with the inhouse knowledge, the best time to get this commit through would be end-of-day Friday... when SREs pretty much universally are going to lynch you for doing any sort of checkin... I realize that the idea is to contrive an example to say "what if..." but these sorts of "what if"s are the exact thing that SREs are tasked with preventing.

+puellanivis Because if you THINK your security is infallible and you can't come up with a way it could fail, then it's impossible for it to fail in some novel way no one considered or realized was possible, right?

+Privacy Lover It's not that I think their security is infallible. It's that the particularly "novel" way that Tom describes is not actually novel and couldn't happen at Google. So, to be clear, this is not some "novel way no one considered or realized"... sure there could be a different way that this specific scenario (Google stops checking password validity) could happen, but nothing he actually described is possible.

+puellanivis But he did say it was fictional and does he even _have_ inside knowledge at Google? Furthermore, he just used Google as an example of a company that wouldn't sue him. He could have picked Microsoft (which would have been entertaining him describing all those Windows 8 and Windows 10 PCs going doolally because the user's main account is linked to a Microsoft online account) Apple, Facebook, any system. It's why I find it hilarious that all these commenters are specifically talking about Google.

Ah, so THAT'S why I just got this video in my recommended.

The trusted 13 for the O-5 but yes