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>(Though, yeah, I'd avoid a lot of "normal" activities if I ever attended BlackHat.) I wonder whether you‘d take similar precautions on a site named Hacker New
by permo-w 4y ago
>(Though, yeah, I'd avoid a lot of "normal" activities if I ever attended BlackHat.)
I wonder whether you‘d take similar precautions on a site named Hacker News
- ghaff 4y agoAccessing a known non-sketchy website? No.
- permo-w 4y agohacker news is a link aggregator
- brewdad 4y agoIf you've spent any time on here you know that no one actually clicks the links to read the article. Users need only trust the pages with an orange header.
- chupasaurus 4y agoI don't trust orange headers, only blue ones.
- Xorakios 4y agogrin
- permo-w 4y agoI know I don’t but surely some people do perhaps hacker news is merely a conversation prompt aggregator
- rvnx 4y agoHN as a separate entity has practically no value, it could just be reddit.com/r/hackernews and it'd be practically the same.
- permo-w 4y agoreddit doesn’t have dang
- hammyhavoc 4y agoThe thing about Reddit is that it has greater "discoverability" through search, profiles and algorithmic "hot" pages, so communities like that inevitably become swamped with low quality posts. There's a few niche subs that just degenerated into posting photos of purchases that arrived in the mail today instead of actually discussing the use of the tools.
- ghaff 4y agoI mean the upstream comment is basically saying don't trust clicking any links on the Internet--even on a site that presumably weeds out really dodgy stuff quickly. Indeed, not using the Internet is a solid, if rather extreme, security process to follow.
- permo-w 4y agoI wrote it, and that’s not what it’s saying
- Nevermark 4y agoSo far, web standards don’t support online supply of direct (constant) current, alternating (sine wave) current, they can only provide imaginary (square root of stealing your) current. So you can’t trust any site for power. —- Although teleporting power Via quantum entanglement has been demonstrated as possible given a line of communication. So crazily, “power over data” may happen one day. Perhaps, we can all look forward to hackers draining our last 1% of battery power as a reward for not using end-to-end power encryption.
- permo-w 4y agothen you won’t mind if I mine some crypto on your machine?
- stametseater 4y agoA website would be hard pressed to emulate a keyboard plugged into my computer.
- permo-w 4y agovery true. nevertheless, I’m curious if you implicitly trust the security of links on HN? I know I largely do, but perhaps that’s unwise, especially given the site’s stated target audience
- TillE 4y agoSerious browser exploits are extremely rare these days. Like, the worst you get is cryptocurrency mining while you're on the page.
- vGPU 4y agoI still get the occasional popup that gets past AdGuard on my phone and tries to add spam to my calendar on my iPhone but it’s definitely a lot better than it used to be. I got one a few months ago that had instructions on installing a custom management profile, now that cracked me up.
- worthless-trash 4y agoYou say that now. Wait till someone reprograms that arduino plugged into your USB via webUSB to be a HID device to do their bidding !