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Comment by dunk010 | Hacker News Reader

"that resulting shenanigans might be a little asymmetric. " - What does this statement even mean? You should think before you just throw a load of cliches into a sentence.

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As in the attacker would be able to pop up and attack the original user of @N at will for what might very well be a vicious attempt to take over or destroy as much of his digital holdings as possible.

The grandfather post is referencing asymmetric warfare[0] which would be a pretty decent name for what could happen. I don't think he just threw some cliches into a sentence.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assymetrical_warfare

Naoki has already made changes to prevent this type of attack from working again (e.g., removing credit cards from Paypal, moving his domains from GoDaddy, etc.)

Hopefully the attacker didn't back up a decades' worth of his emails.

The attacker never got access to the victim's email accounts. He changed dns records to point to a different server. So he would have gotten some new email emails during the time he had the MX records pointed at his server (and he could have used that time to gather additional information), but he couldn't get to any existing emails.

Where there is a will there is a way. It's easier for an attacker for find a way in than it is for you to secure everything. The point is the attacker has the edge when the name of the game is, for lack of a better word, terrorism.

That is a perfectly reasonable comment and it makes total sense. You are being needlessly rude and obtuse.

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