Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
Is anyone else kinda put off by how Cloudflare keeps interjecting themselves into this situation? First with the Twitter posts and now this blogpost. They're a passive observer, not involved in this event, and yet they keep putting the
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Just to clarify...I pretty obviously don't think that Facebook intentionally pulled the plug to suppress a critical story. But the inadvertent effect of the downtime is nonetheless the fact that the critical story will not be the cente
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> stopped its spread on FB networks. bingo. I don't care whether it's in the realm of tinfoil hat or not, this is the very real effect that this outage has had. By the time Facebook is back up, people on Facebook will be talkin
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> is that no one ever makes a mistake This isn't what I'm saying, though. The thought I'm trying to express is that if no individual accountability is done, it allows employees who are not as good at their job (read: slop
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Yes, absolutely, people make mistakes. But the thought I was trying to convey is that some people make a lot more mistakes than others, and by not attributing individual fault these people are allowed to thrive at the cost of having less er
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Well-managed companies blame processes rather than people I feel like this just obfuscates the fact that individuals are ultimately responsible, and allows subpar employees to continue existing at an organization when their position co
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Plenty of banks require HOTP dongles. Those are, if not more confusing, than certainly on par with U2F dongles. Meaning if banks can do HOTP, they can do U2F, and using "confusing to consumers" is not an excuse.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
What I'm getting from this is that Coinbase was/is using SMS-based 2FA? Using anything short of mandatory U2F means the responsibility of this breach firmly falls on Coinbase's shoulders. It's like if you found out your
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This beats the con artistry of NFT scams any day.
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> This is certainly not novel. Which other artist has done it?
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Pedantism is trotting out the fact that yeah, you can find plenty of people still running Windows-whatever on their Gateways, or lovingly cared-for TRS that still "just works". The point is that by and large, Apple devices are bui
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> A computer is a device. Correct. A computer is a device. Snow Leopard and Mavericks--your two examples-- are, however, not computers.
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> Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer An amazingly succinct title. Absolutely true. Whenever someone hypes up cryptocurrency, it is almost always for their personal gain, directly or indirectly.
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Yes, it is. Snow Leopard and Mavericks are not devices. The quote I am responding to is: > Apple used to be the company that made devices that were secure and "just worked". Unless your first generation iPod still works wonders
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Apple used to be the company that made devices that were secure and "just worked". This is a complete myth. In fact, not only did Apple devices break all the time, but they were near-impossible for regular users to repair on
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> My actions are in accordance with responsible disclosure guidelines (Google Project Zero discloses vulnerabilities in 90 days after reporting them to vendor, ZDI - in 120). I have waited much longer, up to half a year in one case. &quo
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If you rent a flat without a contract, absolutely. Which is why I specifically said: > f you are storing your data with a third party, and you do not have an iron legal contract with this third party, then that third party can and will d
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by Ansil849 5y ago
This is such a crucial point that so many people overlook, even when being cognizant of the risk of storing data on the cloud, somehow SSO integration is many tech-literate users' blind spot.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> They have a responsibility to provide adequate human customer service. A moral or ethical responsibility, maybe. A legal or financial one? Not under our current system, unfortunately. And corporations are not ethical actors. Just to be
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> The added grievance to this is that my drive also included my own personal family photos and my current book on the subject I mean, how many times does this need to come up for people to learn the lesson? If you are storing your data w
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Probably, but people burn meat on purpose. People also sometimes write poor code on purpose.
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Curiously, what is your opinion of UX/UI researchers? Or of design in general? Is the pretense of 'objectivity' something which denotes more value to you, generally?
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> I think with this one it is, because everyone has tasted before, but comparatively few have coded before. I don't think this is an apt comparison. Tasting is consuming something, coding is creating something. An apt comparison wou
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That's a bit like saying that most people have used pretty horribly-designed apps, but they did what they needed to do, so the user couldn't tell that they were horrible. For example, most people could not care less that their pas
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> The food was fine, but... I didn't get it! I think there is a culinary language that I understand as little as a typical Michelin-starred chef would be able to evaluate a tightly-written C program. Correct. I don't know why t
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by Ansil849 5y ago
The claims in this video are absurd. It suggests that there are no stable jobs, which is patently false. If you want the promise of a steady job, however, you need to pick a field which will always be in demand. Off the top of my head: corr
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The first question that immediately comes up is: has this project received any independent third-party security audits? Has it been otherwise peer reviewed by the security community?
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If I reserve something, I expect it to be there. Car rental companies should not be allowed to play the game of lying to consumers under the understanding that lying is "by now standard practice". This is what consumer protection
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> Rental car companies cannot control their inventory as well as we might hope. Why not? Make a late return fee sufficiently high, and see if suddenly inventory control becomes a lot easier.
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Could the business not be 'viable' owing to the fact that there is simply no alternative? If the choice is between making a "reservation" that may or may not be available and between definitely not having a car, obviousl

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