Azudekai t1_j1zjpfp wrote on December 28, 2022 at 3:58 PM

What is this headline? No where in the article does it state CCC are selling these devices, just that they bought some off auction and found and reported this vulnerability.

gray-nomad t1_j1zlyyl wrote on December 28, 2022 at 4:13 PM

I read it as the CCC bought it at an auction

Sugar_buddy t1_j1zp134 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 4:34 PM

I thought it was stating that they sold them on eBay

PapstJL4U t1_j1zpe4l wrote on December 28, 2022 at 4:37 PM

I know the CCC bought it of an auction and the Cambridge Dictionary and Webster says:

to auction = sell something at an auction

and they don't mention any other meaning for the verb form.

gray-nomad t1_j1zq6l7 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 4:42 PM

I‘m not a native english speaker, so that’s why it looked ok for me. Maybe the author has no dictionary as well..

PapstJL4U t1_j1zthzh wrote on December 28, 2022 at 5:04 PM

I was interested as well as my native language has prefixes to for this exact situation.