{"id":36007,"date":"2021-03-11T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=627b3b09e70a494989d17c3fa9e6ee72"},"modified":"2021-03-11T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:36:25","slug":"an-8-year-old-con-artist-ran-a-brilliant-grift-to-get-out-of-going-to-school-over-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=36007","title":{"rendered":"An 8-year-old con artist ran a brilliant grift to get out of going to school over Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/03\/11\/an-8-year-old-con-artist-ran-a-brilliant-grift-to-get-out-of-going-to-school-over-zoom.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: That's clever.  The assumption of all these systems is that people _want_ to get in, so they lock out on repeated login failiure, and it gives an attacker information to tell when that happens... so when there is a benefit to locking an account, there really isn't much defense.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/03\/11\/an-8-year-old-con-artist-ran-a-brilliant-grift-to-get-out-of-going-to-school-over-zoom.html\" title=\"An 8-year-old con artist ran a brilliant grift to get out of going to school over Zoom\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" link_thumbnail=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=930%2C620&amp;ssl=1 930w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?w=1940&amp;ssl=1 1940w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=930%2C620&amp;ssl=1 930w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w,https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-gustavo-fring-3874385-1-scaled.jpg?w=1940&amp;ssl=1 1940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a><p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1360685864100237318.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter thread<\/a> is wild. Read the text below, or, tl;dr for spoilers &mdash;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 8-year-old figured out how to temporarily lock the account by entering enough wrong passwords, and did that every time she got bored in class. It took them 3 weeks to figure it out. &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2021\/03\/11\/an-8-year-old-con-artist-ran-a-brilliant-grift-to-get-out-of-going-to-school-over-zoom.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the rest <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Twitter thread is wild. Read the text below, or, tl;dr for spoilers \u2014<\/p>\n<p>The 8-year-old &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=36007\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}