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AFNobody
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AFNobody
9y ago
I don't think you fully understand my point. Your SO not being in tech + your income probably is $100k or more. Once you reach that point in the US, you are not materially impacted personally. We all have friends/family/etc t
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9y ago
> Oh, but we do have an anger problem these days. People are not angry because they carefully examined their situation and decided it's caused by deep wealth inequality. It isn't about my personal situation. Wealth inequality d
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9y ago
I'm pretty sure they mean they are running a web crawler, not buying information from criminals. It makes it technically true yet completely useless.
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9y ago
> Freezing your credit is meaningless thru Experian. It can be recovered via all 3 in various ways. Once your identity is "stolen", a credit freeze is completely ineffective if the attacker chooses to use the recovery options a
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9y ago
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0148-prescreened-credi... There you go. Enjoy.
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9y ago
Do you understand what a customer service nightmare customers asking if their phones got hacked by your website is?
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9y ago
> According to this definition, is there any possible form of widely-used money that isn’t fiat money? There used to be 100+ years ago such as gold and silver coins where if you were able to remove them from Country A to Country B, then
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9y ago
> A 51% attack means a lot of bad things can happen to bitcoin. Its value would probably crash if an individual got 51% of the power just because it is no longer truly decentralized, even if they don't abuse that power. That already
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9y ago
Correct, and notify the user the site is infected with a trojan with a scary warning screen. That second part being the bigger issue. The JS being blocked isn't the issue, the fact I have users contacting me claiming the site was hacke
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9y ago
It doesn't work. Multiple antivirus vendors flagged it when I tried that.
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9y ago
Yeah, I had that problem as well when I ran a two day test. I had ~2% of users report their antivirus blocked it as a Trojan and .6% tell me the site has been hacked. And that is running it on relatively benign settings. :/
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9y ago
A 51% plutocracy is still a form of state governance that qualifies as fiat money and effectively can destroy the value of your coins if you resist. It is really no different than the government fining you for disobedience. There are philos
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9y ago
Good luck and make sure to get some kind of heat source to cook on. Cold canned food tastes horrible. :/
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9y ago
Please work on building some kind of safeguard against typosquatting and other similar angles. The one thing that worries me with this sort of thing is the "oops, I typo'd" something factor.
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9y ago
> But either way, in terms of a targeted attack for a company's data - surely the clients (phones, workstations) are the weak point? In other words, I think the paragraph oversells the benefit of e2e a little bit? Literally no encry
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> Last time I looked Telegram wasn't recommended by Moxie and a few other people. That was 2-3 years ago. What's the status now? I honestly don't think it matters. The fact they lie about a large number of items, such as t