The author of the article has no idea what he's reporting on so it's not hard to draw conclusions when in his mind all he sees is "omg two popular internet things got hacked in the same day".
He even calls the obvious XSS attack a piece of 'cryptic code'. This guy is not a tech writer.
Caitlin Dewey runs The Intersect blog, writing about digital and Internet culture. Before joining the Post, she was an associate online editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
She is certainly not a tech writer. She just writes about shit that happens on the Internet. You don't have to be technical to write about culture, even if it is Internet culture.
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The author of the article has no idea what he's reporting on so it's not hard to draw conclusions when in his mind all he sees is "omg two popular internet things got hacked in the same day".
He even calls the obvious XSS attack a piece of 'cryptic code'. This guy is not a tech writer.
She is certainly not a tech writer. She just writes about shit that happens on the Internet. You don't have to be technical to write about culture, even if it is Internet culture.