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by beager 9y ago
Thoroughly disagree. While I do think Equifax should be raked forcefully over the coals for their gross and pervasive misconduct, setting up something that is virtually equivalent to a phishing site does not punish them or create relief for
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by beager 9y ago
I was saying this[0] in the other thread, but I'm not sure this ends with laughs and `aw shucks`es for Nick. Equifax has been remarkably ham-fisted in every regard, from their initial exposure, to their inability to patch, to their get
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by beager 9y ago
IANAL, IANYL, TINLA but I can't imagine that using Equifax's name in your domain, using their branding and IP on your site, impersonating the site very strongly, or even presenting the option to enter sensitive info on your domain
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by beager 9y ago
Was the site not designed to actually phish? - The site contains Equifax's heading, uses their branding, and is highly similar to the actual website - The site is hosted on a domain that is very similar to the actual website and uses E
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by beager 9y ago
Fair enough, I will be trampled by pedantry then!
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by beager 9y ago
My point is, a layman may not know that, a judge may not care.
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by beager 9y ago
Devil's advocate: how does anyone know you're not actually phishing with this site?
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by beager 9y ago
Thanks for owning it and thanks for fixing it. Better response than you're likely to get almost anywhere!
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by beager 9y ago
To red team that line of reasoning: hold on to the hacked data but don't use it, wait till public forgets about it, don't give business/lawmakers a reason to neuter the data, then strike a few years down the line.
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by beager 9y ago
In the long run, their being tolerated by VCs (and other capitalists) tends to push the liability onto public markets via acquisitions and IPOs, which you could argue makes it Not Their Problem, but that should eventually cause markets to d
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by beager 9y ago
Dodge regulators, capitalize on hype buyers who won't read the fine print. Taken in context, I don't expect one satoshi* of this to go toward anything real or good. (sidenote: is a "satoshi" the right term for the indivi
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by beager 9y ago
I feel like Valleywag did a pretty good job of that, but it's now shut down. One problem with Valleywag, or any enterprise that would chronicle these sorts of things, is that while abhorrent behavior by SVites waxes and wanes, the need
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by beager 9y ago
It's a very valid observation that a fleshed-out platform is not required to gauge market interest or even product-market fit, but the further convoluted your non-technical technology-based platform gets, the more painful it will be to
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by beager 9y ago
Two things: 1. Russian money (or any foreign money), if it gets scrutinized for buying disinformation advertising in the US, will just find a way to hide itself better. Facebook should have a duty to vet ad buyers to an extent, but if Russi
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by beager 9y ago
The pace of the product space and the profile of players in the space both indicate that sandbagging is an awful strategy. I'm likely to believe it's a lack of deliverable.
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by beager 9y ago
I would give them the benefit of the doubt, but still, confidence does not a six billion dollar valuation make.
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by beager 9y ago
Have any other companies raised at this valuation pre-product, much less pre-market fit? Where does this value come from? Have they booked even 1% of that valuation in sales, or is it all speculative? And I'm baffled in light of the sp
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by beager 9y ago
Let me guess, the Fnew Fengland Fpatriots?
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by beager 9y ago
I deactivated on January 1, still find myself typing `f` in the address bar in a new tab. They've done a very good job of getting in the brain stem.
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by beager 9y ago
> I’m sure Facebook, Google, and PayPal would all love to take over from the credit bureaus, and there are real reasons to be wary of that. Some people will tell you we should put it all on a blockchain, decentralizing the system and que
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by beager 9y ago
Thanks for the response. This is something that's not well known to me and in the age of retailers trying to upsell the same thing for a fee, I'm not surprised that it is obscured.
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by beager 9y ago
I'm genuinely curious if credit card companies get involved with warranty-related actions, or really anything beyond the fitness and accurate representation at the time of purchase. As far as I can tell, thigs like AppleCare and EU VAT
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by beager 9y ago
Good point. I wouldn't trust that the speaker on a mobile phone has a very good frequency response, but a TV or car stereo might be able to swing it.
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by beager 9y ago
As the article says, there is a physical presence bar to meet to make this workable now, but I can't not think about clever ways that this could become a "worm" or spread digitally. Infected viral (actually viral!) YouTube vi
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by beager 9y ago
At first blush, sounds like these folks are generally liberal as a result of their upbringing and higher education, and then they run into a spot in entrepreneurship where liberal ideology restricts business growth (ideologically to the ben
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by beager 9y ago
Take the substr down and I think 8 and 10 combine and may include a very large number of additional matches.
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by beager 9y ago
It also creates large swaths of potentially lucrative revenue opportunities based on the size of the Uber user base, without the quantifiability of those swaths that you would see in core-product market expansion, or core-product optimizati
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by beager 9y ago
It could also be a bit ageist, indirectly. By qualifying older hires as adult supervision, companies might unconsciously avoid hiring older employees for positions where there is not a perceived lack of maturity, or hire workers only for th
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by beager 9y ago
As I understand the asymmetry in the BSD+patents license, the real issue here is that usage of React significantly weakens you with respect to mounting a defense against Facebook for infringing upon your own patents or IP, a possibility whi
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by beager 9y ago
I think people are leaving because the position has no political influence, and the cost of taking PR shrapnel from a disastrous Trump presidency is too high. These business leaders can be assumed to be in it for self-aggrandizing reasons,

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