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by Thriptic 7y ago
It's also somewhat misguided in my opinion. For some reason a large portion of the population have decided that it is categorically impossible to do anything about global warming from a technical or policy perspective. They have thrown
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by Thriptic 7y ago
That's exactly why social engineering works: biases and assumptions. People are absolutely generally more willing to help a woman than a man for a variety of reasons (perception of harmlessness as you point out; people assuming women a
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Agreed. Maybe if the company wasn't doing the things they were doing they wouldn't have been targeted. I have about as much sympathy for them as I do for Hacking Team, FinFisher, et al after their respective breaches.
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It's a complicated situation. In our case, the regulations were complicated because: 1. There was no one place that held all the data one was expected to know. Regs were strewn over legislative artifacts, departmental implementatikn do
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by Thriptic 7y ago
It's more complicated than that. Largely, it just seems that way because most people never bother to understand the rules past a cursory Google whereas big companies have teams of very experienced regulatory professionals from the agen
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by Thriptic 7y ago
That's going to be hard to deal with, principally because I'm sure many of the control apps only search for devices on your local subnet and don't allow manual specification of IP. If they do allow manual specification of IP,
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Ask HN: Is Nest Experiencing an Outage?
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Put it on a private VLAN (eg guest Network that can't be reached from main network), pull the Sim card, uninstall all non-essential software, turn off all non-essential services.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I stand corrected, thanks
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If your goal is to optimize for equality of outcome then the only solution which works is a random lottery. Make the application process multifaceted and what you described happens. Make the application process all about one exam and you ge
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As the article notes, this is treating the symptom rather than the problem. When you have a system which dramatically favors graduates from top schools, entrance criteria solely based on single exams, and punishment for single exam failures
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I don't see any mention of Bezos agitating for consumption reduction in that article. I don't see any mention of his personal consumption habits so I'm curious where you got the data on which you are basing your claims (for a
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I follow, but what exactly is the real privacy threat here? If we look at an echo for instance: * The device is hardwired to light up whenever it is listening so you can't be eavesdropped on without some indicator. * The device only tr
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This is what I don't understand. Everyone runs around terrified of these smart speakers but have no problem talking around their phones which have mics, their computers which have mics, other devices which have mics, CCTV cameras which
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by Thriptic 7y ago
> The "good guys" (telco/law enforcement) have strict criterias to access it, like court order. The good guys have a non-transparent approval mechanism for permission which no one can audit. In reality, you have no basis f
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Just set firewall policy to allow new / existing connections from your trusted machine to your untrusted ones and only existing connections from your untrusted machines to your trusted one. Granted, an average user will not be able to
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Netgear also has VLAN config through the GUI on some of their higher end consumer routers (eg Nighthawk).
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by Thriptic 7y ago
It isn't that simple. The public high school I went to is one of the best in the country and was largely comprised of middle class and upper middle class families. The very wealthy largely sent their kids to nearby private schools. The
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Even that in a way is useful to them. If they are constantly getting confused, bemused, or angry responses to what they think is honest feedback, it is a red flag about their hiring process.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
They gain the goodwill of a prospective employee who might cycle back and be a great fit later on in their career (and who has more skills then). It's also about what they don't lose, which is not only me but potentially other pro
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I disagree with this. I've had two companies contact me and offer legitimate feedback after interviews, and I always left feeling happy and with good feelings about them. I applied to one company and got a response back which was effec
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Remote access? Display solutions? Alerting? Availability? Backups? Ease of config? It's totally dependent on your use case. Did you have to Port forward or set up a VPN for local viewing? Just that will stop 95% of users.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
This seems like a silly article. No one is making pronouncements like "you should never ever buy a new car regardless of your income / wealth" or "not making small daily purchases like lattes is the cornerstone of a soun
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Security through obscurity is one reason. A lot of script kiddies will blast away at services on well known ports. Simply changing the port off the default cuts down on a lot of script based attacks, inhibits generic port scans, and makes i
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Agreed, these sorts of pieces really irritate me because they almost seem to be blaming young people for following basic incentives. Want people to go into an abandoned field? Great, pay them more than jobs they are equally well suited for,
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I assume most of the users of scihub have legitimate access to some content. Even the most well funded universities don't subscribe to every journal. When doing a lit search, it is very common to wind up with many potentially interesti
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What data is known exactly? Phone number? IP?
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Assuming that surveillance works (and I'm not really sure it works well) then the alternative is terrorism and crime. I agree we need some level of surveillance, but the question is at what point do the risks of the surveillance (suppr
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Somewhat of a topic hijack and a naive question, but assuming Cloudflare is a government entity, wouldn't they still have to comply with whatever their terms of service / contracts with their users are? As they are a US company, b
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As a powerlifter who has dealt with depression many times in the past, I totally agree. The beauty of lifting is that it gives you a set of goals with very clear success metrics that are readily attainable. There are also well proven progra

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