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So if something is 1337 days old it gets autoreposted? Could live with that. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607 https://news.yco

by mxfh 12y ago

So if something is 1337 days old it gets autoreposted? Could live with that. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607 A bit more precise this post is even older, and was first discussed in 2007 prominently in these two places: http://www.reddit.com/comments/xaae/how_to_extract_personal_information_and_account/cxbgy http://www.reddit.com/comments/xaae/how_to_extract_personal_... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/how_to_recover.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/how_to_recove... (please refrain from responding with XKCD references, I'm aware of that, just want to link to older discussions)

vog 12y ago
My favourite comment from the old discussion came from andrewreds: > WHAT... why would you completely black out the number, where you could instead use random coloured squares, that look like it is a blurring, so someone can go through all the effort, decoding your white noise, and thinking in the end they have your number... when they don't ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939807
CreakyKnuckle 12y ago
To be fair, that's a pretty numerically apropos age for HN.
dheera 12y ago
I wrote this a lot more than 1337 days ago. IIRC it first appeared on Slashdot. http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/01/07/1352242/blurring-images-not-so-secure http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/01/07/1352242/blurring-image... Not sure what prompted someone to repost it to HN today. But that's cool because I see people continue doing this on a daily basis.