akshatpradhan

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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
excellent ELI5!
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
How does TDD cause more harm than good in software design?
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
What is encryption for? Why even have it at all? Devil's advocate.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
I understand what you're saying, and I agree. But I think it might be a little disingenuous to use Osama Bin Laden's crypto practices as an example. I believe this is the more interesting story of what really happened with Bin Lad
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
+1 for Body cams?
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
They clearly use scapegoats to push forward with their agenda. Didn't Al-Qaeda declare Jihad on India? That's a scapegoat. India has nothing to do with them, but they've declared Jihad. France has nothing to do with them, but
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
Well that's that folks. Like all topics in Security, Tomorrow, we won't even remember this convo. How's the weather in PA?
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>There is so much bad code in the world, and it just keeps growing Security Compliance is hygiene and reduces the attack surface. We should all be more diligent about complying to reduce the bad code.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
The NSA knows little about defense. They keep saying Defense in Depth but even they don't know what that means. Its Security Compliance guys! Defense in depth (Castle Approach) is Security Compliance because the Security Controls are d
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
How would you find others still out there living in similar precarious situations?
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
Who is saying this? >We don't need a firewall, we have good host security >We don't need host security, we have a good firewall
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>Working minimum wage jobs is often repetitive, soul-crushing, and/or physically demanding. By the time you leave work, you might want to buy finished products (e.g. fast food) instead of spending time shopping for and cooking healt
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>our technology does security via continuous concealment. IMO, this isn't a castle approach. Its more like you've added a security control to help with Data Retention.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>the government's approach to cybersecurity has been 100% offense. I also read your other comment that you posted in the comment >This is a serious problem, not only from the problems intelligence angies with many powers and poor
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>To be fair, as long as you are building systems on top of general purpose operating systems and exposing them to the internet, you're going to be vulnerable to one hack or another. No matter how much money you throw at the problem,
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>The BEST result you can get from spending on security is...nothing bad happens. That's crap =]. A secret about security compliance (aka defense in depth) is that it actually reduces your technical debt, doesn't increase it. Th
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
Wow and you're that guy that won the Putnam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
With Basic Income enabled, why would we need welfare workers? Just put the welfare workers and labour organizers on basic income!
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
There were a lot of references that I couldn't understand.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
I think that's the problem with IRC. The idea of decentralized IRC networks means that channels are scattered amongst multiple IRC networks. IRC is already not as usable as Slack, and to have multiple networks decreases usability even
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
Yes they do. Check out ##security on Freenode. I also do some security stuff in ##GRC
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
Truth be told, they've probably got more experience than anybody else to make Homejoy 2.0 a much better product.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
Education. The rich are informed and therefore its noble. The poor are uninformed are therefore its manipulation.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
That statement is conditional that you're paying the person less than $100. What if the highly qualified employee from Homejoy was for $200-$250?
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>I can't imagine using a service that sends someone different every time, or even someone for whom I can't see reviews and receive references before the first visit. This is a service that requires putting a lot of trust in the
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
I'm curious as well.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
I want to learn more about Galaxy's security hygiene. I also want to learn more about what reasonable steps Galaxy is taking right now to ensure our data is safe after we `meteor deploy`. Are they compliant with any security accountabi
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
This has to be the nail on the coffin. They're spying on our porn. Those are personal details about myself I would never share with anybody and wouldn't want anybody to know. Fine, keep an image of my penis, but knowing details a
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
People aren't as self-compliant with watching their resources as you think.
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by akshatpradhan 11y ago
>But it's important to recognise that most homeless or vulnerably housed people do not have a mental illness This can't be right. A previous HN discussed how "almost half of homeless men had traumatic brain injury in their

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