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by g051051 9y ago
Not a chance. There have been too many other breaches, I don't see how there would be any way to tie a particular instance of potential identity theft back to a particular breach. And besides, how many more breaches will the be in th
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by g051051 9y ago
> an event that should bankrupt a company such as Equifax That's a ludicrous thought. They were the victims of a crime, not the criminals. Should Target have been bankrupted? Or Home Depot?
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by g051051 9y ago
The new version of Concertmaster fixed it for me...the splash screen goes away, the main window comes up, it detects Spotify, and actually plays music. So far, it's amazing...great job!
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by g051051 9y ago
Spotify version 1.0.69.336.g7edcc575, installed this morning when I read about Concertmaster.
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by g051051 9y ago
Looks neat, but I have the bug. As a "workaround" (as someone mentioned later in the thread), if I click on the tray icon I can open the app, and then close the splash screen manually. However, I can't get it to play anythi
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by g051051 9y ago
Just making the point that it went from a simple text editor to a much more full-featured IDE wanna-be. That's a bit of a paradigm shift to me.
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by g051051 9y ago
Nothing but love for emacs, props to those who use it.
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by g051051 9y ago
VS Code is certainly neat, but with the rush to cram everything into it, it's starting to feel more like emacs than vi.
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by g051051 9y ago
Opt out of what? It's a service you subscribe to.
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by g051051 9y ago
Duff's Device was one of those "light bulb" moments, where my understanding of computers and programming really expanded.
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by g051051 9y ago
I dispute the claim: "ME-11 management engine chip [is] used on almost all recent desktop and laptop computers in the world". AMD chips are popular in both consumer and business applications...there's no way that whatever fr
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by g051051 9y ago
From the Network World report: > If you have a modern Intel CPU (released in the last few years) with Intel’s Management Engine built in, you’ve got another complete operating system running that you might not have had any clue was in th
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by g051051 9y ago
I had to replace the caps in my SyncMaster 204B. The problem was so pervasive that I ordered a kit for my monitor online that had all the caps I needed for this particular monitor.
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by g051051 9y ago
I think it's more that the priorities of older programmers are different. If you're in your 20's, you are less likely to have kids or other things that take you from work. If you're older, you have a family and other d
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by g051051 9y ago
I'm 53, no sign of "ageism" in the company I've worked at for 18 years. None of my friends has encountered it, either. Not to say it doesn't exist, but it's not the foregone conclusion OP makes it out to be.
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by g051051 9y ago
Exactly...what was going on for 2 years that they could slam out a replacement in just a few months?
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by g051051 9y ago
Not only that, but if they wound up throwing away so much supposedly unmaintainable code, then he wasn't the great developer they thought he was.
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by g051051 9y ago
I'd have to guess that someone cancelled the analytics at the business level, but never bothered to write up a change request to tell the devs to take it out.
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by g051051 9y ago
I don't know, how can you reasonably defend from that sort of domain hijacking/repurposing? We fundamentally have to trust DNS at some level, but domain names are somewhat transient in nature. Is it fair to single out Equifax he
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by g051051 9y ago
The script they hosted was legitimate. The Akamai content that it loaded, was legitimate. But Fireclick let the domain lapse, and someone else is now impersonating them and serving malware, and not just to Equifax, either. Why is the sto
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by g051051 9y ago
That script was provided by Fireclick, so they're the ones that hardcoded it. It even specifically says "Please do not modify this code".
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by g051051 9y ago
Yes, this was discussed earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15456221 And debunked...it wasn't a hack of the Equifax web site, but a malware package delivered by 3rd party analytics company, Fireclick.
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by g051051 9y ago
Is this archive publicly available? I'd love to dig through it.
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by g051051 9y ago
Equifax was loading this script: https://aa.econsumer.equifax.com/aad/uib/js/fireclick.js This script, from Fireclick Web Analytics, then loaded a script via Akami CDN that was hosted for a Fireclick domain,
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by g051051 9y ago
Yeah, looks like a compromised ad/stats provider. That would also explain the intermittent nature of the bad download. I'd hope that the article gets updated with the facts...other companies might be vulnerable to this as well.
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by g051051 9y ago
So was it Equifax that was hacked, or Fireclick?
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by g051051 9y ago
> Sadly, this isn’t anywhere near true because most employers who contribute data to The Work Number — including Fortune 100 firms, government agencies and universities — rely on horribly weak authentication for access to the information
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by g051051 9y ago
Again, the article mentions that the initial group struggled to get any sort of foothold after the initial intrusion...it wasn't until the "advanced" team took over that the real breach began: bypassing firewalls, installin
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by g051051 9y ago
> had no relevant experience in technology or security This has been thoroughly debunked. She had extensive industry experience in a series of increasingly important security and compliance roles going back at least 15 years. Furthermo
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by g051051 9y ago
No, it goes into considerable detail about the nature of the attack, how it changed once it was passed off from an "entry team" to a more advanced group of hackers, and the level of sophistication.

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