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Comment by jessedhillon | Hacker News Reader

Can we stop using and supporting scribd yet? They don't let you get past page 3 on mobile devices without installing their app. Most phones have PDF viewing capabilities, what is the need to host PDFs on scribd?

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Agreed, it's a most frustrating website to use on mobile and tablet. If it helps, here are mirrors of the content:

[pdf] https://bitstampincidentreport.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/2...

[docx] https://bitstampincidentreport.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/2...

Did anyone scan the docx for unknown/known vulns? :)

It would be pretty hilarious to read an incident report six months from now that cited that link as a successful phish.

I have never understood the point of scribd, but in this case it might just have been a convenient semi-anonymous place for somebody to post this.

I find Google Drive good, but if you want to be anonymous to governments you'd have to make a new account while hiding IP, which may be difficult.

The people who had legitimate access to this document would either have had the necessary skills, or could have just read this document to learn them. Of course, I'm assuming that "Diann J. Anderson" is a pseudonym, rather than the name of the dumbest secretary at Stroz Friedberg.

EDIT: I'm referring to a scribd doc. For the reasons you cite, GDrive would not be appropriate for this.

I believe it's difficult to create a Google account over Tor, they may require phone verification, and so on.

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