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by bostik 3y ago
The same way you detect a really good piece of satire from actual news.
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by bostik 3y ago
Outcomes. And not for individual engineers, but whole teams.
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by bostik 3y ago
Combination of reputational damage[0] and him being a PEP. I believe the account closure was a business decision, but they definitely had no reason to be public about it. One good thing came out of the debacle, though: it put the spotligh
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by bostik 3y ago
Which is straight out of Macchiavelli's playbook. The first thing you do after conquering the throne is to bundle up all your pending atrocities in one and eliminate competition. The second thing you do is slaughter the mercenaries you
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by bostik 3y ago
The problem isn't hosting, it's the maintenance and plumbing. Companies learn the same lessons painfully when it comes to build-vs-buy. There is no such thing as "buy". There is "build", and there is "buy-
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by bostik 3y ago
Popping arXiv would be quite an impressive watering hole attack. You wouldn't need to do anything to the site itself, their PDFs are downloaded by a huge number of bleeding edge researchers and technical journalists.
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by bostik 3y ago
> My thoughts is that there's so many candidates (or maybe posting bots?), that if all checkboxes are not ticked, they can discard them. About 25 years ago, friend used to have a bullshit detector skill in the job spec requirement
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by bostik 3y ago
That, and the quality of the results. They've had to give up the latter, so might as well dump the former too.
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by bostik 3y ago
I'm a Debian user since 1998 and have had it as my personal desktop since that time. I'd think that counts for something. > Apt is also just such a phenomenal package manager. It is fast out of the box, This wasn't alw
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by bostik 3y ago
I'll provide a slightly different argument. I talked to FB people (recruiters, managers) in the site integrity team back in 2018. Admittedly I had some reservations up front, but during the on-site day I made up my mind to never even c
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by bostik 3y ago
If they were successfully trialed, that means they weren't doing it well enough. They got caught. Every nation does that. US likely does it less than most others, primarily because others have more to catch up.
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by bostik 3y ago
People outsource their critical thinking all the time, but with computers the failures are more egregious. There is less recourse to correct things, and information propagating through systems can make the error more persistent. Also: peopl
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by bostik 3y ago
Thank you, I have been looking for a resource like this, one that would come with an RSS feed. Now I have one less thing to hunt around for.
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by bostik 3y ago
I wasn't trying to claim it didn't work . That's the whole point of it: to drown out other options. Hence for me advertising is a major negative signal as far as quality or suitability for purpose is concerned. It's lik
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by bostik 3y ago
Believe me, if journalists could tap the same set of resources as advertising does, they would. A really good editor can turn a mediocre piece to a good one, but it takes time, and 3-4 rounds of back-and forth. The same editor, working with
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by bostik 3y ago
Not immoral. Just potentially counterproductive. I've taken a stance, DECADES ago, that all ads are telegraphing a very simple message: "my offering is not good enough to be discovered on its own merits, therefore I have to spend
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by bostik 3y ago
Whoops, my bad. Thanks for correcting the record.
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by bostik 3y ago
> When Chrome came on the scene it was a huge improvement I don't think people in general realise how big a jump it was. Process isolation demonstrated that a browser with a single event loop is not a given, and the idea of comple
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by bostik 3y ago
To be fair, it is one of the few domains where "move fast and break people" is a perfectly acceptable strategy. After all, a good number of the people you plan to break are on the other side. Do unto others before the do unto you.
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by bostik 3y ago
As sibling poster already wrote, technically you can scope a CA to a set of subdomains only. Or try. The spec entry is "nameConstraints" but for a number of reasons it may not be well supported. Some of those reasons are absolut
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by bostik 3y ago
In total? Maybe an order of magnitude more - so across all of Big Tech, in all projects and ongoing maintenance activities that are directly enabling or powering their cybersecurity aspects... I'd say $25B. Altogether. Let's look
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by bostik 3y ago
Because for them these operations are part of their military and intelligence spend. And in terms of allocation from the tax pot, both are highly privileged.
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by bostik 3y ago
I have to disagree, because it's more subtle than just (im)balance of budgets. It's about the highly asymmetric nature of the ongoing conflict. A nation state has effectively unlimited budget in money, but more than that, their in
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by bostik 3y ago
If you are up against an adversary with an unlimited budget and organisational event horizon measured in years, your quarter-to-quarter thinking will always kneecap you.
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by bostik 3y ago
I have things installed in my home that I don't own. Electric, gas and water meters. The common factor with all of those is that their liability also remains on their respective utility provider companies. You do not get to retain owne
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by bostik 3y ago
In other words, PoC || GTFO for all submissions?
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A device that is installed in my home but which I do not own is an increased liability on me .
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by bostik 3y ago
OP reads like something I have played devil's advocate for. In an earlier discussion about WA vulnerabilities, one of the reported bugs was that as implemented, Facebook could have added themselves silently to any group chat, thus rece
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by bostik 3y ago
That makes political propaganda a willing source of ad revenue in an otherwise vile environment.
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by bostik 3y ago
This is the core of the matter. With the language of their license, they have a financial incentive to start offering services that increasingly cover more and more of the possible "bulk" use cases. Your use might have been perfec

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