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by dsacco 9y ago
> "De Morgan's laws" maybe a few pages. It could be an entire book, though :)
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by dsacco 9y ago
Nope. It’s stated in their acceptable use policies.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. That might be especially useful if I decide to diversify regions too. > There are much better options available if you can bring your own IPs. Like what?
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by dsacco 9y ago
I forgot these links: DNS and rDNS lookups on https://mirrors.sorengard.com/dns_lookups and https://mirrors.sorengard.com/rdns_lookups respectively.
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Ask HN: Recommend a dedicated server provider that doesn't mind port scanning
10 points by dsacco 9y ago|7 comments
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by dsacco 9y ago
Can confirm this. I run a consulting company and received a letter like that in 2016. They sent a bill with corroborating documentation indicating I’d underpaid by about $2,600. I reviewed my own records, concluded they were right, checked
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by dsacco 9y ago
I’m not sure how you mean; in general, I was tasked with finding vulnerabilities that could be used for reverse engineering purposes and which woukdn’t be disclosed.
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by dsacco 9y ago
To be clear, ToB is not trivializing the vulnerabilities. In particular, your second and third quote here are equally applicable to most serious vulnerabilities found in e.g. iOS.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Everything has a bug right? Find a bug, short a stock. Profit. There are reasonable arguments that encouraging this would reduce vulnerabilities, or at least make them more costly. I’m not sure I would bother raising those argument
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by dsacco 9y ago
>There is no immediate risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities for most users. Even if the full details were published today, attackers would need to invest significant development efforts to build attack tools that utilize these
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Am curious if it is legal to fund security research to find flaws in a competitors product. It’s legal. I’ve been hired to do it before.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> but since we know that in the past people have been send to prison, just because some app on their phone requested an URL from the wrong domain Do you have a citation? When did that happen?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> laws are normative arguments about whether or not something is ultimately unethical That wasn't the distinction I was making. A law is a positive statement. An argument of what should be lawful, or an interpretation of a law,
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is Matt Levine’s “Money Stuff” column for this morning. He discusses two topics of recent interest to HN: 1. the insider trading case brought against an Equifax employee yesterday, and 2. the CTS Labs security disclosures that may have
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Is insider guessing illegal?(bloomberg.com)
4 points by dsacco 9y ago|1 comments
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Every true mathematical proposition is a tautology. I don't find this point particularly convincing. As long as the model's predictions match reality in interesting ways, it can lend possible insights on why reality might ha
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by dsacco 9y ago
I looked at the GitHub README for the project, which says > Uses machine learning to classify Twitter accounts as bots or not bots. The default model is 93.53% accurate when classifying bots and 95.32% accurate when classifying non-bots
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by dsacco 9y ago
Which companies are the coveted ones? Off the top of my head, Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon happily hire people without degrees. Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs also do it. The lucrative private companies I can honestly think of that real
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by dsacco 9y ago
> My best understanding is that serial killers are typically bright. And the link you have provided is not really compelling evidence to the contrary. Your understanding is incorrect. But I read How to Lie With Statistics too, so I&#
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by dsacco 9y ago
> There are many mental disorders. Psychopathy is just one of them. Not every crazy person is a psychopath; not everyone who harms others is a psychopath. Psychopathy is a specific type of a disorder, not an umbrella term for "ever
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Sociopath is a clinical term, it's just not in the DSM because it's not, per se, a disease or disorder. Being a sociopath doesn't, by itself, cause impairment as defined by the DSM. But that doesn't mean it's
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Psychopath is a clinical term. No, it isn't. "Antisocial personality disorder", "dissocial personality disorder", "unspecified personality disorder", etc - these are all clinical terms. Neither psyc
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I highly recommend not selectively pulling out one detail of many as an excuse to be dismissive. The other commenter didn't merely nitpick a detail, they attacked a central pillar in your comment's credibility. When you res
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by dsacco 9y ago
> These are "computer nerds" taking aim at an American company from outside the US. I do not think they will find many willing to practice the restraint we would see if we were dealing with a typical wealthy American white col
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by dsacco 9y ago
> But my understanding from an Intro to Psych class that I had years ago is that serial killers typically have six traits, including high IQ, plus other traits we would consider sociopathic, like lack of empathy. Your understanding is
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by dsacco 9y ago
If an action is brought against the researchers, I predict it will be a (likely unsuccessful) insider trading case, not a market manipulation case. I don’t see any market manipulation here[1], considering activist investors have set a prece
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by dsacco 9y ago
> The real reason this is not insider trading is that there is no information provided from the inside here - simply deducing facts from outside information is both legal and ethical (though if you do have material inside information, c
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by dsacco 9y ago
> At which point does it become illegal though? Is it considered insider trading if you know about a security issue but have no internal knowledge about deals etc.? Trading on a security vulnerability that has not been made public is,
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Of course the SECs view that any trading on US stocks is under it's jurisdiction, and Section 9(a)(4) of the SEC Act. It's known as stock bashing, it's a fairly usual form of market manipulation and attacking big Americ
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I tend to lean toward a trait, and there really is no arguing that there are benefits What are the benefits?

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