Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) 100
stephendavion (2872091) writes Hackers who compromised the servers of Domino's Pizza have demanded a ransom of €30,000 or they will publish the records of more than 600,000 customers – including their favourite toppings. "Earlier this week, we hacked our way into the servers of Domino's Pizza France and Belgium, who happen to share the same vulnerable database," wrote Rex Mundi [the name the perpetrators go by]. "And boy, did we find some juicy stuff in there!"
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Actually, a friend of mine is "blessed" with a last name that contains the local world for "asshole".
You think any of his emails ever survived a spam filter?
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Yeah, it sucks for the actual Nigerian finance minister [irregularwebcomic.net].
If I were Domino's, I would consider offering a reward (less than 30000 Euros but still significant) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of these hackers.
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You've won a massive yacht [youtube.com]!
Improper use of [sic] in TFA (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, it's a British article, but they put "[sic]" in a quote that contains "favorite" as opposed to "favourite", I guess without taking into account that the perpetrators might be American. On the other hand, while typing this post in Chrome, the browser marked "favourite" as a misspelling :-)
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It's not improper use, all it means is that it has been transcribed exactly as written. It doesn't matter if the original authors are American, it's there to inform the intended readership that the potentially unexpected spelling is as per the original text.
If you're going to be a grammar pedant at least get it right.
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Yes, but:
The notation's usual purpose is to inform the reader that any errors or apparent errors in the transcribed material do not arise from errors in the course of the transcription, and the errors have been repeated intentionally, i.e., that they are reproduced exactly as set down by the original writer or printer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
But not worth arguing over.
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in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written
Also: "Yes, it was actually written like that in the original. It makes me sic."
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il ya de francais ici , vous et un clod insensitive
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il ya de[sic] francais[sic] ici , vous et[sic] un[sic] clod[sic] insensitive[sic]
FTFY :-)
Sad ... (Score:3)
And here I thought the Europeans had a much richer food history than to have actually ever ordered pizza from Domino's.
You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.
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You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.
Yeah, but Dorcia doesn't deliver, and isn't open at 1am. Plus, it's a safer gamble than a prawn biryani.
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Prawn biryani can be a safe bet. Depending on what you're betting on getting.
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You're not that far from where pizza was invented, surely you can do better than that.
Geography fail. Europe is not close to Chicago.
< getting brick oven ready...>
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It's Italy. Which makes sense, since the Mediterranean and near-east are known for flatbread, even if some of the toppings we put on it today originated in the US (like pineapple).
Also the word "soccer" was coined in the UK, not the US. We just like to take credit for everything, apparently.
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Also the word "soccer" was coined in the UK, not the US. We just like to take credit for everything, apparently.
Oh no, that's the irony of the whole thing. Credit for the word "soccer" was forced upon us, mostly by brits and their other former colonies. We also know how to spell "Aluminum".
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Pizza (of a sort) was invented in Palestine when the Roman soldiers couldn't get levened bread during Passover. Granted, it wasn't much like the modern pizza.
Perhaps the modern pizza was invented in Chicago. Certainly one variety has that name.
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In most of what I've known of Europe, there are two kinds of pizza:
- Italian restaurant pizza: The one that will be nice if the restaurant is ok and only really good if the restaurant is actually in Italia.
- Fast food pizza: Domino's, Pizza hut, etc. One interesting thing about fast food pizza is that a lot of people prefer the American brands, with thicker, greasier pizzas. The other interesting thing about fast food pizza is that it bears little resemblance to actual pizza.
When you've got a dish with thre
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*shudder* Oh, wow ... that stuff is just nasty.
Got completely disgusted by that over a decade ago. Couldn't possibly do it again.
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*shudder* Oh, wow ... that stuff is just nasty.
Got completely disgusted by that over a decade ago. Couldn't possibly do it again.
Well, if you are sick of living, you can try the purveyors of pretty much the best damn burger you will ever have: at Five Guys. You will still feel like crap afterwards, probably because the fries they give you are enough to clog the arteries of an olympic marathoner, but sooooo gooooood... And no, I have no affiliation with them. They seem to be all over the US and also in Canada.
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Around here, there's a third category, the middle eastern-owned pizzeria. They make decent enough pizzas that are completely indistinguishable from the ones at competing pizzerias, since they all get their ingredients from the same place. And you can get a cheap greasy kebab to go with it.
I'm firmly in the "Italians make the best pizzas" camp, and I firmly believe that my favorite pizzeria is one of the best in the world. Run by Italians, with a proper wood-fired oven, a TV that plays nothing but Italian so
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As a brit with an italian SO, that's about the size of it. In London at least there are lots of good (and some great) pizzerias, almost all of which are owned and run by italians. The superb Franco Manca in Brixton is quite probably the best pizza I've ever had, and this includes some truly excellent pizza restaurants in and around Naples (pizza napoli is, to me, the only style of pizza worth emulating; the SO is from rome and dislikes the "local" style of pizza as well). That said, they're also one of the
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Real, proper, mozzarella di bufala campana, even spelt correctly this time :) There's a couple of other restaurants that get it fresh as well but they're very pricey.
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There's various great places famous for their kitchen in Europe. French kitchen is world famous. Italian kitchen gave us pizza and pasta (could someone silence the Chinese dissenters over there? Thanks!). Spain gave us paella. And the Germans all kinds of sausages.
And the English ... umm... they brought the napkins.
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The English don't even have their own word for "style of cooking", and use the French cuisine. But one area where English cuisine excels is desserts. A English restaurant will have two or three times as many desserts as a Spanish one, and they'll all be tempting.
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They need to compensate what came before it.
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Hmmm ... likely an entire hemisphere, so practically just around the corner.
I have never eaten 'freedom' fries. Pommes frites, bitches.
Same place they get the rest of their culture. Television.
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You're not far from where potatoes were invented. I bet you still eat freedom fries. Sometimes I feel like having regular Italian pizza, and sometimes I want some Domino’s. Besides, European food is (undeservedly) notorious for sucking, except in the south of Europe. Where do you think Americans got their food culture from?
Can't say I've ever had freedom fries... are they similar to french fries or is that just the PC way of saying it? Honestly, they were french fries for years, if you're offended by the name, deal with it... we shouldn't change names because they offend a few people.
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Sadly, this is what happened when France didn't want to join the coalition of the willing [wikipedia.org] with Bush and he was in full-on screeching "you're either with us or you're against us".
A Canadian politician got into trouble for calling it the coalition of idiots [bloomberg.com].
But given what was actually accomplished in Iraq, one has to agree with these sentiments, and remember that Bush was doing it without any good
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Technically, a pizza is just a flatbread. And that's in Italian, for the Greek name for flatbread is... pita. (Granted, the bread is actually made with different ingredients, so Italian pizza and Greek pita are not substitutable - but they do refer to flatbread).
It was the Italian immigrants in Chicago tha
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France is McDonalds's number three market globally (after the US and Japan). On a per capita basis, it has more McDonalds than any European country other than Austria.
they'd better pay (Score:5, Funny)
or the names of those sick and twisted anchovy lovers will be revealed to the world, and where will they hide their faces then?
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where will they hide their faces then?
Probably in another pizza.
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only if its with pepperoni. *drool* I mean, they'd better pay or weirdos will be exposed!
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Only if you insist in wearing those silly colorful shirts while doing so.
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Then you better eat no pineapple.
favorite toppings? (Score:2)
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And especially not the "internal" remarks.
I worked long at the call center for an ISP. Or, as we called it, the "nuts' favorite call in show". We made it a game to come up with fitting nicknames for pretty much every halfway regular caller. Because, well, the regular callers are also usually the more obnoxious ones. Part of it sounded like the lineup for Dick Tracy villains. We had the "mumbler", the "breather", the "shrill bimbo", the "Kazakh" (at first we thought he's Russian, only to find out when we got
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No - Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, Anchovies
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No - Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, Anchovies
You forgot the funyuns and skittles.
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Unless Domino's is offering baby seal chunks and fried panda bear slices as toppings,
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Fried panda, Onions and peperoni!
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Great. Now I'm hungry.
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Whatever they want, give it to them, because if your personal information is among their ransom then its all over. It doesnt matter what your toppings were, or when you ordered, or even why. Europe, and all the world, will know you to have intentionally and willfully placed an order for the worst american export since George Bush. Rumours will spread about your love for country music and before you know it, your allegance to nascar, cold budweiser, and jean shorts will be all but fact in the minds of your brethren.
Meh. I can live with that....
Draw a unicorn on the box (Score:3)
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Paying the ransom won't help... (Score:1)
If they pay the ransom or not the data is still compromised and customer will have to be notified.
Hackers limit /. headlines to 80 characters (Score:1)
[Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) Fo]
^^^ 80 chars max!
I don't understand how in a modern-day system there can still be bugs like this.
(My comment was intentionally written in eighty characters to avoid being trunca
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The RSS headline is even more hilarious.
Hackers Ransom European Domino's Customer Data (including Favourite Toppings) For €3
pun (Score:3, Funny)
I've kept my love of sausage (Score:1)
Extra anchovies (Score:2)
I wonder how many customers ask for extra anchovies [wikipedia.org] on their pizza?
Interesting.. (Score:1)
I wonder if choice of toppings correlates to voting history.
And if so, could it be circular? I.e. interesting people in more non-traditional toppings could influence their views on non-traditional topics...?
Rex mundi? (Score:1)
The king of the world? Jesus Christ?
Just FYI: Ave Maria [wikipedia.org]
It's Cyberarmageddon! (Score:2)