amphorasource

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   by amphorasource 5y ago

   While I'm glad no data was leaked and that Samuel is taking the layered defense approach seriously as it was wildly debated on the previous HN thread, I'm still a bit miffed that we only got confirmation that no leak actually occu
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   by amphorasource 5y ago

   Newsblur mangled the formatting of a very large amount of newsletters I forwarded. The grouping per sender was great, but not really worth it if many newsletters end up unreadable. Considering Newsblur's solution relied on setting up (
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   by amphorasource 5y ago

   You misunderstand. I paid Samuel and entrusted him with my data. Not too much, but enough for it to matter. When faced with a massive leak like this, he downplays everything, calls the hacker a "script kiddie" and calls this &quot
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   by amphorasource 5y ago

   This is horrific. So the hacker is claiming to have a copy of our data. 0.03 BTC is less than $1000. Regardless of you being able to restore from backups, I assume you're paying the ransom to hopefully avoid the leak, right?
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   by amphorasource 5y ago

   Samuel's nonchalant reply to this is highly disturbing to me. I'm a Newsblur customer and as far as I can tell, my feed data is in the hands of some hacker and he doesn't care at all. I am much less concerned about the servic