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    Sponsored Hacking?

    As you all know, Priceline is a travel site where you submit bids for plane tickets, hotels, rental cars, etc.

    1) Well, www.biddingfortravel.com is a site where people share their information about what bids got accepted and what you got at Priceline.com. This practice reduces Priceline's profits by providing the information that allows Priceline's bidders to make more intelligent bids (i.e. lower bids that still win). This site was taken down by hackers over Memorial day weekend for a few days.
    2) www.jcwhitney.com (a popular car parts web site) was hijacked so their front page displayed lowestfare.com instead. lowestfare.com is owned by Priceline.

    Why would hackers do things to benefit a corporate entity like Priceline? Could they have been paid by someone? Trading volume on Priceline (PCLN) has seen some spikes in the last week or so. I wonder if something is up. What do you guys think?
    “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man​
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    Kalonike: Only we women? Poor Greece!

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    • #3
      The Money must be good.

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      • #4
        Maybe there are stocks too, but yeah ultimately money.
        Lysistrata: It comes down to this: Only we women can save Greece.
        Kalonike: Only we women? Poor Greece!

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        • #5
          Interesting.

          Yeah, it does sound some corporate entity paid the crackers to break in.
          (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
          (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
          (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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          • #6
            @ UR

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            • #7
              Hoh, Reminds me of Cyberpunk...
              I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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              • #8
                Nah, nobody is plugging a deck into his (or her) head yet...
                (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
                (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
                (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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                • #9
                  yet
                  Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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