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by click170 11y ago
This. File a polite complaint that they are excluding members of the community unnecessarily, and that alternatives like meetup.com exist so you don't even need to run your own web server.
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by click170 11y ago
I worry for all the unmaintained but still available gems.
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by click170 11y ago
As Nest demonstrated time and again. Their thermostats had a defect at one point (not sure if it was ever actually fixed) where if your heating or cooling system caused a surge in your wiring, your nest would get stuck with both heating and
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by click170 11y ago
Give them the power? No that's not how it works in the USA. Companies have free reign to do what they will, its up to us the people to demonstrate why / decide what they are doing is illegal and demand laws around it. I think the
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by click170 11y ago
And they wonder where their subscribers are all going...
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by click170 11y ago
Though I haven't confirmed that this was fixed in new models, when I was first reviewing the Lockitron I contacted their support folks with my concerns about paying a one time fee for something that waa easentually a service and about
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by click170 11y ago
I wouldn't have such a grudge against fitbit if they would make it easier to log to your own server. Even if I had to hijack DNS to accomplish it, I wouldn't mind. Its not like many people would take advantage of the option. But t
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by click170 11y ago
Unlocking my front door? That has to work without internet access. Turning my lights on and off? That has to work without internet access. Logging my heart rate et all, ala fitbit? Nope, I should be able to use a server of my choosing, requ
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by click170 11y ago
What bugs me is how many companies these days want to include reliance on the cloud for features that don't require it at all, in the interest of gaining access to more customer usage data, but then when they turn the servers off the p
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by click170 11y ago
These shenanigans by Google and the numerous reports of the problems with Nest and their smoke detectors have basically guaranteed I don't include Google devices in my home automation setup. I would rather manually muck around with a r
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by click170 11y ago
I would prefer if they made it easier for people to verify the gpg key fingerprint for those of us who want that extra level of security. You don't have to verify the fingerprint if you don't want to but at least give me the optio
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by click170 11y ago
When that stopped working is when I went with DDG full time for my searching needs at home and at work. And I don't yet regret it either.
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by click170 11y ago
We should really be verifying the fingerprint of the key itself, even if it is served over HTTPS.
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by click170 11y ago
What bugs me is how prevalent that has become. I'm looking at you Jenkins![0] [0] https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenki...
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by click170 11y ago
To clarify, posting data that you exfiltrated crosses a line and you shouldn't do this. Publishing a proof of concept for the exploit instead is widely considered acceptable especially when the publisher attempted to contact the vendor
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by click170 11y ago
Companies being generally unreceptive to this kind of feedback is partly why full disclosure is so necessary. If they won't treat a security incident with the importance it deserves its time to elevate it to a PR incident by posting to
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by click170 11y ago
You could remove your accounts and move on but that does nothing for their other customers. Depending on how much time you've given them this sounds like a perfect candidate for the Full Disclosure mailing list, just post anonymously.
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by click170 11y ago
Neither did I, I just filled in a company name at one point in the purchase process and that apparently flagged me as a business. This lead to further complications because their consumer support department couldn't even find the order
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by click170 11y ago
The Dell Latitude E7250 works pretty well, Debian Jessie is missing some drivers and things (eg for Wifi) but Linux Mint (ugh, I know...) works wonderfully well. I haven't tried Ubuntu but I would expect the same experience or better.
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by click170 11y ago
It seems more likely that they let you buy a ticket but not board the plane, but that's a guess. Can anyone confirm?
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by click170 11y ago
Frankly the knife cuts both ways. Microsoft has a long way to go before they get the benefit of the doubt from me due to their decades of Embracing Extending and Extinguishing.
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by click170 11y ago
This is partly why I do not buy that they've given up on Embrace Extend Extinguish. They have another decade worth of good behaviour owed before I'm willing to consider giving them the benefit of the doubt. But that's me.
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by click170 11y ago
So long as I have root over my own machine, "they" don't get to force anything.
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by click170 11y ago
I'm curious about how you found yourself in a position of both hating a piece of software and having to defend the decision to use it. Why did you have to defend something you hated? Where I work if something doesnt have an advocate, i
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by click170 11y ago
I've been pondering this myself recently, and decided to explore setting up my DNS-level adblocking in Bind using RPZ instead of my hosts file. It was quite easy, and I now even use nsupdate to block new ad domains that show up so that
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by click170 11y ago
As long as they're not trying to roll their own crypto, the concern is significantly lessened. I need to be convinced that this new app doesn't just rot13 everything and call that 'advanced new encryption'. Just explaini
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by click170 11y ago
To provide some insight into the mind of someone who does care about their privacy: When I see an app or product that touts some security claim, I check around their website to see what they offer to back that claim up. I do not file suppor
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by click170 11y ago
I don't mean to diss your experiences clearly softlayer worked for you in your environment but I'm honestly shocked to see Softlayer suggested here at all. We just finished trying to set up some servers in softlayer and it was the
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by click170 11y ago
I completely agree but what happens when some startup produces a product with serious flaws and is then sued out of business before they're able to fix the product. Who's liable for fixing the product then? IMO the people who lead
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by click170 11y ago
I wouldn't agree that it's hard to outlaw, but I would agree that when the original encryption export laws were written nobody had OCR in mind. It seems like it would be quite easy to outlaw this, the only question is what collate

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