1. He provides emails - I think Mark(Guy from Plenty of Fish), really needs to get those voice recordings of Chris threatening his wife online to be more credible.
2. Mark tells a complicated story - A story with mafia and all that, really? If we follow Occam razor, Chris story sounds more realistic. He saw a flaw and reported it. Everything was going dandy until he saw ads for Plenty of Fish data. At this point Mark decides to try ruin Chris by fabricating a story, since he believe it is him trying to sell the data. It is a simpler story.
3. Why isn't Mark contacting the authorities? - A week and Chris is not in jail and responding freely on his blog?
Mark does have some valid points though,he did hack pirate bay: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-hacked-users-exposed-...
But Chris claimed again, proof of concept and he has no bad intentions.[What is the appropriate way to expose vulnerabilities?]
In my opinion, he[Mark] should release the voice recording to add more credibility because right now he is sounding shaky.
A key point here is that he didn't use a proxy and doesn't seem to hide his identity during the sniffing around, which means he's either:
a) stupid.
b) not intending to do anything malicious.
I think a. is unlikely, because he did actually manage to break in, although, the hole itself might've been trivial and therefore this might not count. I don't think so, though.
Which leaves b.
I think it's pretty obvious from both sides of the story that what Chris intended to do was (c) demonstrate the existence of a vulnerability in order to hard-sell his security consultancy.
Reading between the lines, it looks like his sales tactics were heavy on the FUD (he pointedly hasn't denied making any claims about Russian conspiracies), leaving Frind paranoid and angry. And probably also embarrassed if the security flaws were as basic as is being suggested.
The hacker's story certainly has less holes, however the style of writing out numbers as words is suspicious; I have only ever seen it in 419 scams: "28,000,000 (twenty eight million users)".
-http://grumomedia.com/plenty-of-fish-hacked-chris-russos-exp...
1. He provides emails - I think Mark(Guy from Plenty of Fish), really needs to get those voice recordings of Chris threatening his wife online to be more credible.
2. Mark tells a complicated story - A story with mafia and all that, really? If we follow Occam razor, Chris story sounds more realistic. He saw a flaw and reported it. Everything was going dandy until he saw ads for Plenty of Fish data. At this point Mark decides to try ruin Chris by fabricating a story, since he believe it is him trying to sell the data. It is a simpler story.
3. Why isn't Mark contacting the authorities? - A week and Chris is not in jail and responding freely on his blog?
Mark does have some valid points though,he did hack pirate bay: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-hacked-users-exposed-... But Chris claimed again, proof of concept and he has no bad intentions.[What is the appropriate way to expose vulnerabilities?]
In my opinion, he[Mark] should release the voice recording to add more credibility because right now he is sounding shaky.