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by jfrunyon 6y ago
That helps when you set the security questions yourself, which is not the case here. The security questions these companies ask you are data from your credit file (like your past addresses and creditors).
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> A security freeze essentially blocks any potential creditors from being able to view your credit file, unless you affirmatively unfreeze or thaw your file beforehand. I feel pretty sure they can probably pinky-promise that they really
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
And as I said, a password manager can be a physical piece of paper that only you ever see. There is absolutely no need to trust an additional intermediary unless you choose a password manager which requires that. And additionally, you c
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Cool, but a pathname is not and has never been a file descriptor, and open is an operation upon a pathname.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
I was replying to a comment which used AWS having multiple datacenters as a benefit over Backblaze which only has one. If your data is only in one datacenter either way, then does it really matter if a particular provider only has one datac
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Except that declaring bankruptcy has actual consequences for people with no assets.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> It is definitely important to note that that these loans can be discharged in bankruptcy. But as far as I know, isn't this less stringent than typical student loans, which can't be discharged in bankruptcy? Is the point here
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
You can't lseek() (what is seek()?) a socket because lseek doesn't make sense on 'streaming' data. There are multiple answers for how it can be done (i.e. receive it to a buffer) but you can do that yourself, in userspac
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
"Everything is a file" still involves platform-specific APIs. The filename and manner of operation on that file are, after all, platform-specific.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
And you pay S3's markup for every datacenter you want your data to be stored in, plus AWS's network markup for the transfer between those datacenters, do you not?
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Source? Reasoning? No? So we're back where we started, thanks.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> You can't get more security by trusting more intermediaries with your passwords. I would agree, were it not for the fact that every worthwhile password manager never sends your passwords to any intermediary. There is of course som
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> Many security software providers are hackers or ex-hackers... So you're basically paying hackers to protect you from themselves. Why should I trust software which is almost 100% guaranteed to have been written by hackers more than
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
LastPass was hacked just six years ago... how short our collective memory is https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice/ As far as getting actual password data, yes, the attack surface is the
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> A browser is way too complex attack surface to trust. Only way I get a password is to ssh into the isolated host, decrypt password and cut & paste. A browser is too complex but an OS and SSH aren't? There are vulnerabilities i
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
You're right, the car isn't trying to outsmart anyone - physics is trying to outsmart engineers.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> Perhaps they could force you into a password reset for a specific site by corrupting the correct files. That might be an interesting first step for an account takeover. It would be interesting to see that accomplished without making it
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
It's not nearly that simple. That's also not a ban on a downstream activity, like a ban on prostitution is.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> Cloud services are ruled by a ruthless economy of scales. This is where Amazon, Google, MSFT and a host of other cloud providers shine, reaping the benefits of investment in data-centers and petabytes of storage capacity. I dunno about
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
American manufacturing was shipped overseas because , i.e. after, American labor was unable to compete. I'm not sure what "corporate trade agreements" means either; corporations don't make "trade agreements".
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Sure, but so does doing a whois or an NS check. Plenty of registrars and registries are known to have abused such data in the past.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
There are also very little requirements to running a registrar...
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> Leadership in the University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science & Engineering learned today about the details of research being conducted by one of its faculty members Uhh... they didn't know what their own employees
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
You said it yourself: reasonable . And no, the logic is not that it's bad and dehumanizing, the logic is that some people are truly opposed to doing it. Similarly, if I'm on unemployment, I do not have to, say, go drive a garbage
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
"We should ban hunting, because it's very hard to prosecute poaching after the product has entered the st[r]eam of commerce" wonder how well that would go over here in the US. And yet it's perfectly good logic when it ag
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Then it probably should in fact be legal to sell them.
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
That (sorta) exists. This bill doesn't appear to be on Congress.gov yet, but as an example, https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
Then you haven't been looking or you aren't in the EU and it therefore doesn't even apply to you...
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
People wouldn't think the world is so much more dangerous than 50 years ago if we didn't use the SWAT so often. And if people didn't think the world is more dangerous, then those in power wouldn't be able to get away wit
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by jfrunyon 6y ago
> Then there would be no incentives for the companies to sell the data. That's just not true. You do realize that they sell your live location data, right?

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