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by dripton 13y ago
You and I are educated enough about web security that we know not to type one site's password into another site. Many people aren't. Phishing is a real problem. When "legitimate" sites start doing slimy, insecure things
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I've seen it once before. Udacity did it to me a few years ago when I signed up for a course, and I closed that account too. I'm not surprised that MySpace or Facebook does it, but those sites are so transparently bad that I neve
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by dripton 13y ago
I apologize for the error and have edited the post.
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I apologize for the error and have edited the post.
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LinkedIn sent me an email saying I had a new contact. When I clicked the link in the email, it put me on the LinkedIn site. As an afterthought on the "we added your new connection" page, they tried to phish my email password.
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by dripton 13y ago
I have a plain old Wordpress blog. What is it doing that you consider phishy? (Should I disable comments? I hardly get any anyway.)
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No, there was a password input box. Definitely giving them my password per se. (Someone else noted that Gmail has a contacts API, so if you use Gmail then they can harvest your contacts without actually getting your password. Which is muc
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LinkedIn's business model is that regular people join for free and recruiters pay for an account that lets them contact those people. Some skeevy recruiters use the "I already know this person" button when they don't, to
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Honestly, LinkedIn wasn't providing me much utility anyway. Recruiter spam plus the occasional question from an ex-cow-orker who could find me with a Google search anyway. It would be a harder choice if the business in question were p
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by dripton 13y ago
Why do you think I have a Facebook account?
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Asking for my email password is phishing, period. It may be phishing for a less nefarious cause, but how's the average enduser supposed to know the difference? We need to plant the meme that any site asking for another site's pas
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That's a pretty defeatist attitude. If nobody complains when companies do bad things, what incentive do they have to stop?
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Not everyone uses Gmail.
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LinkedIn showed my email address on their web page, and provided a box under it to type my email password. Maybe they wouldn't have actually stored my password locally, but there's no way for a user to know that for sure.
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Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account(ripton.net)
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I've lived in Syracuse. DC gets what Syracuse would consider a real snowfall about once every five years. But when it happens, everything shuts down . Not enough plows. And terrifyingly bad snow drivers.
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The US national debt is denominated in dollars. The US government decides what a dollar is. There's no way they can default. Just trigger hyperinflation.
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That makes me happy; it means it'll probably work on my box too if I upgrade Firefox. (I'm using Ubuntu 12.04's default apt repository.)
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by dripton 13y ago
Doesn't work at all for me in Firefox 21.0 on amd64 Linux. Works in Chromium 25 on the same box. This is particularly disappointing because there's a Mozilla logo on the page.
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They left the Pittsburgh "yinz" off question #7.
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I'd rather use Amazon than Google or Facebook, but I'd rather use a site that only did identity than any of the rest. (I don't want access to my Kindle books screwed up because Amazon decided I did something wrong when using them for log
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by dripton 13y ago
Glad to see that she's being forced to step down after such an egregious invasion of privacy. But that's just a school. The much more important case is whether anyone in the federal government gets punished when they do the same thing with
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by dripton 13y ago
Convenience. But more as a proxy to whether the game studios really care about their Linux ports, or are just checking the box then forgetting about them. (I like the convenience of Steam, but I think having DRM-free downloads is important
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Thanks. I was hoping it was just release-time rush.
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Steam won't install Linux versions of Dear Esther and Capsized. (The Steam keys imported okay, and those games now show up in my Steam library, just not as Linux games.) Maybe they're just being slow getting them uploaded, but it's a distu
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Neither language has channels or selects baked in. Python does have threadsafe queues in the standard library, which you can use to coordinate work between threads and processes. C doesn't come with anything like this, but you can use a lib
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It's not a real search warrant if the cops' boss's boss's boss signs it. A real warrant needs to come from a judge.
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Kubuntu on my home desktop, Fedora on my work laptop.
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Except that the truly rich tend to get most of their income from capital gains rather than wages and salaries, and there's a much lower rate for capital gains than for earned income. The "Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary" pr
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by dripton 14y ago
Residual value on luxury cars is typically poor, because part of the justification for the price premium on a luxury car is being seen in something impressive, and a 3-year-old car is no longer so impressive. So saying "for the same residua

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