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Cloudflare/gmail hack: Timeline(techcrunch.com)
1 points by bmj1 14y ago|0 comments
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by bmj1 14y ago
You'll find that adding a long salt, unique to each password, is a far more effective protector against brute force than "hash speed". See this: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/understanding-hash-fun... and: http://stackoverflow.co
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by bmj1 14y ago
Given Moore's law and the prevalence of botnets and cloud computing - hash speed really isn't a very strong means of defence against cracking... Also see: http://cyberarms.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/cracking-14-charac...
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by bmj1 14y ago
With an API - I could actually do a ton of things with this, for example: - Match up to my user base to handle the authentication of phone numbers - Automatically invite the right people to specific calls - Log attendance to calls back to m
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by bmj1 14y ago
Reasons people still uses Google: (Perception of) better results: until proven otherwise - why would you use an alternative/inferior SE - unless you value other things like privacy more than the content of the results - this doesn't apply
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by bmj1 14y ago
> "The only counter point I can think of is that, for a certain chargeback/total charge ratio, it does seem Square could take the risk and absorb any funds deficit." Would attract fraudsters if they took this approach. The law of uninte
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by bmj1 14y ago
I have to disagree (perhaps unfashionably) with the author's sentiment and the comment below "I really like Square, but I always have this feeling that this company is going to be oe (sic) more paypal and with this story it´s confirmed." -
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by bmj1 14y ago
If you have to contact your host to make sure they are patching vulnerabilities - you are with the wrong host.
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by bmj1 14y ago
"FB playing with the vulnerability" - https://facebook.com/?-s They really do have a sense of humour...
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by bmj1 14y ago
Many aspiring entrepreneurs seem to think there is such thing as a 'get rich quick' startup - when the reality is far from this (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3908088 ) Additionally, films like the Social Network seem to propagat
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Learn to read a sentence of Chinese in 3 minutes(blog.memrise.com)
198 points by bmj1 14y ago|73 comments
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Another Mac Trojan Detected, Potentially Bigger Than the First(mashable.com)
4 points by bmj1 15y ago|0 comments
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by bmj1 15y ago
The author is right on the money. I've always written code as specified - just because it felt 'right' - but I could never pin down my arguments - the author captures my thoughts beautifully. Particularly his points about reading other peop
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by bmj1 15y ago
If they opened up an API for this you could have a lot of fun: - P2P payments - Add as friend on FB/follow on Twitter - See friends in common/shared network
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by bmj1 15y ago
Interesting article - but I don't think the author should be so certain of his conclusions. Just because people take longer to solve the 'difficult' candle problem with financial incentives, does not mean they take longer to solve ALL 'diff
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Draw Something fastest growing mobile game ever: 50m downloads in 50 days(bbc.com)
1 points by bmj1 15y ago|0 comments