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A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations. The user who posted the data claimed that The New York Times has over 5,000 source code repositories, less than 30 of which are encrypted. The leaked data is said

A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Anything more complicated than a static website is going to have a significant amount of server-side code.

      Also, the article explains that it’s not just the website, but ALL of their repos, which would include their smartphone apps, backend tools, etc.

      • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I guess I didn’t consider all the other operational shit that goes into providing content and funding for the website.

        • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 months ago

          It’s why our PCs have gotten insanely fast but websites still load like fucking trash. All the back end spying shit takes up a ton of cpu cycles. If you don’t already have em run ublock origin and no script and the internet is so fucking speedy 😆