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by Torn 15y ago
CBSNews (powering Gamespot and a load of other content sites) are f---ing terrible at mobile interaction. View a site link on a mobile device and they'll serve you a mobile version of their front page. That's it. You've then got to click '
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by Torn 15y ago
D'oh. Would this man-in-the-middle attack have worked if path validated against a CA or stored cert and only submitted the data when it was sure it wasn't being snooped on?
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by Torn 15y ago
The app explanation for it will be 'path can hook into your address book' - presumably for sending invites or messages to friends. However at this point the cat's out the bag and path can do what they like with this data (albeit against app
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by Torn 15y ago
Quite funny seeing as Reddit was YC-incubated and was clearly inspired by HN
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by Torn 15y ago
Does HTTPs encrypt headers or just the body? Are both things they're offering secure?
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by Torn 15y ago
Probably not, but after seeing how nice REST API's can be with sensible url mappings, HATEOAS, HTTP methods as verbs, etc. it's almost insulting for sharefile to call it RESTful (presumably because it can return JSON?). Off the top of my
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by Torn 15y ago
> If I send a secret to you in the post, and you put the envelope in the recycling unopened, have I disclosed a secret to you? Yes. Intent and the fact you did it is what matters here.
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by Torn 15y ago
As to age verification, how there isn't a boolean 'isMajor' per-account baffles me. They take your DoB during the sign-up process. Agreed 100% on the UUID - authorisation does not have to mean identification .
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by Torn 15y ago
Thanks, edited
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by Torn 15y ago
> "A: The only information websites had access to is your mobile number, which could not have been linked to any other identifying information we have about customers." The problem here is not that it was only the mobile number, rather
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by Torn 15y ago
I put links to the lew.io tool, this thread and O2's official twitter response. They seem to have taken down the header now though.
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by Torn 15y ago
Update at 14:40: Looks like they've removed the header from being inserted, no doubt after pressure from the ICO and the media cover. The system works!
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by Torn 15y ago
> I'm not quite sure what to do File a Data Protection complaint, see below: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3509096
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by Torn 15y ago
You should absolutely expect a response. The ICO was set up exactly for cases like these and is funded by the taxes you are paying. Make sure you have filled in the correct complaint forms and provided your personal details. Sending an emai
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by Torn 15y ago
Adjust as needed, here's roughly what I put: ------------------------- SECTION 4: Name: Telefonica O2 UK Address: 260 Bath Road Postcode: SL1 4DX Phone: 0800 089 0202 email: peter.erksine@o2.com website: http://www.o2.co.uk SECTION 6: Whe
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by Torn 15y ago
I'm filing a Data Protection complaint now. I'd encourage other UK HNers to do the same: http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/data_protection.aspx
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by Torn 15y ago
It's been used here in the UK too since as far as I can remember
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by Torn 15y ago
Don't forget google is sitting on probably the world's largest repository of video it can datamine and train speech on.
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by Torn 15y ago
I'd really like a portable device / managed service I can carry around that encodes my biometrics in a private key. I don't know if fingerprints or iris scanning would cut it, though as you'd want something that would hash reliably. Maybe s
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by Torn 15y ago
No, classified at some level.
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by Torn 15y ago
> Dell refuses to say what the engine can't do yet. I'll go out on a limb here, and suggest it can't do real-time animation, texturing, lighting, shadows, collisions, etc. All the maps / screenshots shown seem to be static, procedurally
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by Torn 15y ago
For a site named 'readability', the font they're using seems awfully thin and spidery. I need to selecting the text to comfortably read it, and my eyesight isn't bad. Is it just me, or are anti-aliased web fonts these days harder to read
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by Torn 15y ago
Because the ideas behind freedom of speech and 'routing around damage' are the main reasons behind the Internet's success.
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by Torn 15y ago
It'll surely be patented and sat on for a while at a very high price. My bet is we'll need to wait $time_of_release + 10 years until we see things working out over traditional cars.
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by Torn 15y ago
Is there anything graphene can't do?
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by Torn 15y ago
What made you decide on the $199 price point? Additionally, do you think the $199 price point might it out of reach for a lot of people who would benefit from the app but who have tights budgets?
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by Torn 15y ago
You misunderstand evolution. The idea is to be good enough to reproduce, not to be optimal. Hence why humans have loads of vestigial crap that serves no purpose.
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by Torn 15y ago
I don't think they are related. To me, it sounds like Steam was hacked on a number of vectors by people going after it specifically, the same way Sony was gone after.
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by Torn 15y ago
Salted md5 is still surely laughably weak in an age of GPU cracking?
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by Torn 15y ago
You submitted an anonymous anti-mongo story under the name 'nmongo'? What was your agenda here?

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