crottypeter

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by crottypeter 10y ago
> They assume their automated system can catch evil users in the act. Where do they assume that?
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Yes, I saw a 25GB per month home broadband offer this week. Unlimited was moderately more expensive. I guess some people don't need more than that.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
I'm not sure what you are suggesting facebook should do. They can't very well just assume all attackers will set the evil-bit now can they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit The automated system has done
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by crottypeter 10y ago
And yet GP suggests facebook should frustrate returning customers who log in first time with the correct password.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
You don't need to manage a password of an abandoned account. Just make it long and random.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Frustrate returning customers ... not a great idea
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by crottypeter 10y ago
No they didn't! go back and read your own post and the screen shots.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
For many third-party websites your facebook account is your identity, i.e. they are super duper important.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
They aren't aware of suspicious activity because they think OP reactivated his own account!
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by crottypeter 10y ago
GP has not missed the point. The deactivated account should have been secured with a decent password (if the "lack-of-an-account" was important). It wasn't reactivated without any user input - or at least we can't possib
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by crottypeter 10y ago
> (E.g. no consumer is going to care that their smart lightbulb participated in a DDoS) They might care if it used up their GB allowance offered by their ISP or made their connection too slow for e.g. Netflix to work.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
I think the idea is that you never save anything to the disk unencrypted. Zeroing out is not entirely secure because at the hardware level a newly zeroed bit might be distinguishable from a bit that was already zero.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
I usually get the service taken off the bill and leave slightly more in cash. (Even if the server says, "it's okay, we get the service charge").
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Public record is not the same as google-able. Security questions by default often include Mother's Maiden name.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
(UK mobile network) giffgaff.com does this. You can enter any length (as far as I can tell) on the "set password" form but the login form will only submit 25 chars. This means you can successfully set your password to something yo
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by crottypeter 10y ago
There is no logged-in access to password reset in the (android) mobile app either.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Today I learned that uber does not have a change password option once you are logged in. You have to log out and pretend you forgot the password. Bad UX if you don't know.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
WD, seagate. (I.e. your own hardware)
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by crottypeter 10y ago
This looks so cool. Makes me wonder why don't all karting/motorcycling helmets do this? OK not really "why not all?", but I am surprised that i'ver never seen this before.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
I have only been to the USA once and I noticed this. It didn't help that I was in Florida in the late summer (very hot) so none of the locals expected there to be pedestrians!
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Who doesn't?
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by crottypeter 10y ago
why not both? I don't think even facebook can necessarily reveal "the reason" an ad is shown because there are probably several reasons (combined) which lead to each story and ad in your feed.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
No, please. the pound is £ # this really is hash ;)
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by crottypeter 10y ago
NSFW https://youtu.be/YbYWhdLO43Q
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by crottypeter 10y ago
I interpret "that users want" to be a typo of "what users want".
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Lack of fragmentation is a good thing. As others have said important software will be made available. Apple has the luxury of a dedicated userbase and can afford to make these calls.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
It will probably work about as well as torture. Looks like it works, but you simply force people to lie - be that via false confessions or going against halal/kosher practice.
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by crottypeter 10y ago
No. Toilets are the most important idea. I am a physicist by education and value the subject highly but let's not take things for granted. Where would we be without toilets? In the middle of a pile of ...
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Or your competitors bought SEO from an unscrupulous company ... ?
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by crottypeter 10y ago
Yes. I miss the middle-click-paste in macOS. Also the maximise behaviour in macOS is really annoying.

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