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601.
by aroman 13y ago
As a 17-year-old, this hit disturbingly close to home. Absolutely brilliantly executed, and definitely worth the 17 minutes.
602.
by aroman 13y ago
cheap as in stupidly simple, relatively computationally inexpensive and largely ineffective. Not as in having a low storage overhead.
603.
by aroman 13y ago
Seems like it would be interesting to use as a cheap form of JS obfuscation.
604.
by aroman 13y ago
As someone currently attending PennApps, I'd be happy to chip in a few bucks to support the person who had their laptop stolen. Sorry that you have to deal with this Pulak :(
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by aroman 13y ago
Agreed. Though frankly for a company in Yahoo!'s straits, it seems like almost any press is good press.
606.
by aroman 13y ago
This article wasn't written by Yahoo!, and to my knowledge the company who did this study was not commissioned to do so by Yahoo!. So it's not Yahoo! overthinking anything (yet), it's a company showing off what service(s) the
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by aroman 13y ago
Even if it doesn't disappear, it's guaranteed to change a lot in the future. As the top poster pointed out, this whole namestring-is-unique-token idea is not sustainable nor elegant. Surely in the future there will be a better way
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by aroman 13y ago
If I were the daughter I would do this. My identity is what I want it to be. My parents have their own view of me, the government has another, etc. Really, if I were her, I would gladly accept the domain names and accounts she squatted and
609.
by aroman 13y ago
From the article: > [...] which is not actually called Hot4Learning, but the actual moniker is no less trite or gimmicky so I'll spare you
610.
by aroman 13y ago
I didn't mean to imply it was you who down voted me. It seems we're really on the same page here. I wasn't aware of all the strings and stigma attached to the "war on $foo" phrase. My point was simply to object to t
611.
by aroman 13y ago
I'm not sure why my answer merited either a down vote or a sarcastic response, but I regardless, you can work to minimize terrorism without destroying our rights and liberties. I'm not sure where you're drawing the false dic
612.
by aroman 13y ago
So how exactly do we stop the terrorists from harming us, then? Send them a C&D?
613.
by aroman 13y ago
Ah, I wasn't aware they didn't support TOTP; I only ever use sms based 2fa.
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by aroman 13y ago
It does indeed work with third-party apps using Google-style "app specific passwords". But I didn't know that it didn't support TOTP since I only use SMS authentication. I can see that as being a lame move, though.
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by aroman 13y ago
I guess because it's a bit like they're selling out, even though the BBC article a bunch of people have linked here says otherwise. But really, imagine if Apple called OS X 10.10 "Pepsi" and you got a free upgrade with e
616.
by aroman 13y ago
This is a really really good point. What can be done, though?
617.
by aroman 13y ago
How is twitter's 2fa completely new? I use it and it behaves exactly like Google's does.
618.
by aroman 13y ago
It must be; Hebrew is my second language and I was really hoping it'd pop up so I could boost my score, but sadly it never came :)
619.
by aroman 13y ago
This. Even though I personally throw in with the GTK+ crowd as both a user and developer, the competition between the two camps is definitely good for innovation and makes for strong, compelling alternatives on the Linux desktop.
620.
by aroman 13y ago
So because we can't study it we assume it's perfect? That's the essence of the fallacy of security through obscurity. As a corollary, just because you can't do a quick Google search for 0days in iOS or Windows doesn&#x27
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by aroman 13y ago
If a major goal of this project is to allow me to host my own reliable, modern, usable, email server with dead-simple auto-configuration for $25, I am extremely excited. I'm curious, what will your email stack look like?
622.
by aroman 13y ago
Because people voted for it. Seriously, what kind of explanation are you looking for? It's a short chronicle of trial and error and growth, which is certainly consistent with the hacker ethos. And it's on a technical situation whi
623.
by aroman 13y ago
I disagree. Franky, I think males would tend not to submit posts like this to HN, which is their loss. That she is female is not why this post was upvoted, it was upvoted because it was deemed to be of interest to the community.
624.
by aroman 13y ago
It did not work for Skype[1]. This conversation has been about security through obscurity. You're describing their competitive advantage because competitors couldn't build external interfaces to the protocol; that's not sec
625.
by aroman 13y ago
…actually works outside of theory. We're not talking cryptosystems here, we're talking about intelligence and counterintelligence. You don't call a spy's disguise security through obscurity. Note that I'm not condon
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by aroman 13y ago
Actually, your use case was the #1 reason for my problematic proclivity toward Facebook. I too have friends from all around the world (people I worked with on open source projects, people from programs and schools I used to attend, etc). It
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by aroman 13y ago
I used to feel exactly like you about Facebook. I would check it constantly , so much so that when I cmd+t'ing to open a new tab I would often instinctively type "f+return" to have Chrome open the site. 45 days or so ago, I
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by aroman 13y ago
I don't want to be "that guy", but I was immediately turned off by the grammatically incorrect comma in the call-to-action. There should be no comma after "Say hello".
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by aroman 13y ago
So it's clever and quirky. Yeah, it's not a scientific poll. I used to get pretty annoyed with that because your gut reaction is, "hey! I didn't know that would happen! I didn't give your consent to count my vote!&q
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by aroman 13y ago
Maybe I'm the exception, but I never experienced anything but easy access to the speech. A few months ago I googled it and got the full text and great YouTube video taping of it. No issues.

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