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Using a VPN could become a criminal offence under new CFAA interpretation
315 points by janmo 5y ago|91 comments
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by janmo 5y ago
Some how related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29062027
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HiQ Labs, Inc. vs. LinkedIn Appeal(youtube.com)
3 points by janmo 5y ago|1 comments
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by janmo 5y ago
Or, you can spoof the google bot or Bing bot user agent and try to scrape the site that way.
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by janmo 5y ago
I can recommend https://www.scaleway.com/en/ I have been using it for severa. years, never had an outage.
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by janmo 5y ago
OVH has many issues. One of their four data center burned down in march. A few days ago they sent me an email that they were deleting my account soon, and a few hours later another E-Mail stating that it was an error. Now this. Tomorrow is
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by janmo 5y ago
A few years ago I met a 70+ year old developer (he was mainly doing SQL) who had lost all his money and went back coding part time. A bit sad, but he was still able to get employment. I think that many developers are able to retire early or
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by janmo 5y ago
This was during the cold war. They didn't wanted the soviets to know, but apparently they already knew the attack as well.
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by janmo 5y ago
The way the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor worked is that only they (the NSA) could exploit it, they had the equivalent of a master private key. The NSA has a track record of never putting out Cryptography that could be broken by any other actor tha
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by janmo 5y ago
The article basically says that Satoshi went for secp256k1 because for secp256r1 the constants were defined by the NIST under the possible influence of the NSA. I don't think it is a good argument, I invite every one to take a look at
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by janmo 5y ago
"If Facebook’s actions really are a problem to most people, then most people would stop using it." No. Because all your friends are on Facebook. And by buying out all the serious competition (Whats App, Instagram) they have guaran
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by janmo 5y ago
> Nobody wants to touch this story with a comment in 3 hours? I wonder why. In all fairness it was not on the HN main page the first 3 hours, see: https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/28755257
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by janmo 5y ago
I am getting DNS fails for wikipedia
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by janmo 5y ago
OZY raised $35M in 2019, totalling $70M in total funding at that point. In April 2020 the total raised amount grew to $83M. The company supposedly made $50M of revenue in 2020 and claimed to be profitable. So from here, why did they try to
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by janmo 5y ago
Probably the NYT article got a lot of views and obviously if that is the case you want to do a follow up. Same for other news outlets, they want to jump on the train. All of the sudden OZY employees and former OZY employees get bombarded wi
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by janmo 5y ago
To be fair, I am in Europe, and background checks are rather the exception than the norm here. In fact there are only very few jobs where companies are allowed to run background checks. This includes: Banking, security, teaching and governm
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by janmo 5y ago
On one side, sure this is fraud, but I've got to admit that I enjoy seeing VCs getting ripped off that way. It literally takes 10 minutes and some free tools to debunk OZY Medias claims. Yet, big names poured over $70 million at them.
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by janmo 5y ago
I guess the CEO will be charged as well, he cannot deny that he did not knew.
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by janmo 5y ago
Every day brought its toll of new revelations. And I guess it is far from over. "18-hour days and panic attacks: Former Ozy staffers allege an abusive environment" - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/30&#x2
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by janmo 5y ago
I am currently in Colombia, and there are many merchants accepting cryptos, including Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash. I guess it is because their currency has lost 50% in value since the beginning of COVID. On localbitcoins.com you can easily fin
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by janmo 5y ago
It would make a great "American Greed" episode. He got lucky, 7 years is rather on the low end. Usually for running a ponzi scheme this big in the US you get at least 15 years.
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by janmo 5y ago
He could launder the money, and start over again. Not that hard. People also tend to forget and in 7 years no one will remember him. He could also go to another country after his release or just disappear. Many cases where people have run a
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by janmo 5y ago
A bit unrelated: What is the cheapest provider for transactional E-Mail through an API? Mailchimp is quite expense. A few solutions are a bit cheaper but not that much. I used to have my own mailserver using Roundcube and my E-Mails never e
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by janmo 5y ago
Causality bias
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by janmo 5y ago
In this case, they should have build a half dozen instead of one..
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You become a $1B by letting people work hard for you, not by working hard
6 points by janmo 5y ago|4 comments
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by janmo 5y ago
There is a difference between being able to handle 4.2M requests a day, and handling 4.2M requests per day. Visitors don't come neatly one after the other. You might only have 1M requests a day but get random spikes with 100 requests a
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by janmo 5y ago
"Lavabit will not release any information related to an individual user unless legally compelled to do so." "On a final note, the Lavabit e-mail servers do record the IP address used to send an outgoing message in the header
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by janmo 5y ago
There are 180 countries and not one will let you create a company that doesn't have to log IP addresses? Proton should change their description to: "We don't really care so much about your privacy and make fake marketing clai
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by janmo 5y ago
I am no lawyer, but there are over 180 countries in the world, and there is not one that will let you open a company that don't have to log user IP addresses? I call this complete BS. Protonmail has just become one of those providers t

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