Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
I genuinely feel like shaming and social ostracization should be way more commonly used. If suddenly you stop hanging out with friends who work at outfits like Facebook, if they stop being invited to dinners, are socially shunned, then I ge
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Facebook engineers lurking on HN reading this: you are complicit in things like this by developing the technical infrastructure that makes it all possible. If your motivation is money, you can absolutely find that employment elsewhere.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I honestly found it borderline impossible to read or follow. It's a bunch of disjointed speculation and 'did you know you can get any barcode to equal 666'-levels of rambling.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> It's actually the same guy! Holy shit! That made my day. I'm assuming he's saving the big reveal that he's bagged Bigfoot for Christmas.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The local PD is also refusing to do DNA tests which would resolve the issue. Yeah, mean ol' law enforcement, refusing to do DNA tests for any crank mystery squad solving team that demands them.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
#1 This is a pretty big claim. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And yet there is no evidence. -or- #2 It also sounds like they're saying if you remove various letters of the alphabet from a cipher, you can get a rea
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I find this quite convincing I would find evidence of it actually convincing, which you would think would be foregrounded somewhere. And yet, mysteriously, it is not. This suggests that the claim is bullshit.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I feel like at least twice a year, there is some story like "Zodiac Killer Finally Identified" or "DB Cooper Finally Found". And behind these stories is usually just one person or group of people who are presenting their
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> You might want to quote the sentence at the top of the Wikipedia table in your link > can't be considered to have been born into families of wealth And you, in turn, might want to quote the sentence at the top of my previous re
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Most of the presidents from the last century were not born into wealth. Whether or not they were born into wealth is irrelevant to my claim, which is: > Politicians in America are traditionally wealthy people. Of the 17 presidents f
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> As a society, the US has shifted its values from intellectually sound principles, to what ever rich people shout out. When has this not been the case? Politicians in America are traditionally wealthy people.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place? I mean...precisely to be able to control that research. Exactly like companies in other
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> In other words the area is proportional to the square of the radius, not linearly proportional to the diameter in any way. Awesome, thanks for that geometry refresher, that makes sense now of course :).
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by Ansil849 5y ago
For some reason, the one I have the most trouble intuitively grasping is "Two 12 Inch Pizzas have less Pizza than one 18 inch pizza."
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I agree that there's an awkward emphasis on how FB prioritizes security and privacy but nothing is deceptive here. I guess deceptive was the wrong word, so whatever's the term for "awkward emphasis" :).
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Except, I quoted exactly where they were.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Yes, but the fact that the blogpost concludes on this relatively tangential note (which notably also conveniently allows Facebook to brag about their security measures) and not on the note that their audit code was apparently itself not suf
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Going on at lengths about how the trade off between prolonged downtime and strict security protocols is a worthy trade off is erecting a nonsensical strawman, the literal definition of spinning a story. The key issue had nothing to do with
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> We’ve done extensive work hardening our systems to prevent unauthorized access, and it was interesting to see how that hardening slowed us down as we tried to recover from an outage caused not by malicious activity, but an error of our
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The backbone is the network Facebook has built to connect all our computing facilities together, which consists of tens of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crossing the globe and linking all our data centers. This makes it sou
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I understand the broad point. What I am asking for is if there are specific examples of intelligence agencies infiltrating the staffing of hacker zines, which is what the parent was suggesting.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
So...just snark for the sake of snark? Or are there actual examples of this claim?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Who/what is "Setup a new zine and get one free editor from every intelligence agency in the world" a reference to?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Krebs did not promote a DNS service he works for a total of nine times in his blogpost, so I did not feel like I was reading an infomercial for how great Cloudflare's continued MITMing of the internet is.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It just comes off as crass. Next time Cloudflare's CDN eats itself and starts vomiting up private customer data, Facebook can do a blogpost titled 'Understanding how Cloudflare exposed the private information of untold numbers of
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Totally. Just like it's weird that more cigarette companies don't advertise outside schools.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I still remember Cloudflare's PR efforts to downplay Cloudbleed. A key reason why I meticulously avoid using any of their services.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Not really sure what you are driving at. At the fact that they are presenting themselves as authorities on the incident, when they have no internal knowledge of what triggered the events, because they are not Facebook engineers. They p
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I see nothing wrong with Cloudflare just explaining what happened, even though they had nothing to do with it. You kinda inadvertently highlighted the issue: because they had nothing to do with it, they do not know what actually happen
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It's not surprising, no, but it is irritating because it's just crass marketing.

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