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by jsty 6y ago
> And even if you get billed for hundreds of hours of the most premium legal minds thinking about it they can still be wrong. And that's if you can get said legal minds to take a firm position in the first place, instead of the more
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by jsty 6y ago
> Somehow the world simply tolerates all the blatant espionage they perpetrate with zero diplomatic repercussions Because pretty much every other country with a security service is either pursuing similar operations or wants to be. Sure
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by jsty 6y ago
The FT has some better reporting on this, e.g. https://www.ft.com/content/44c47737-5d8b-4aca-8ff3-dbcc8349b... The main issue seems that Greensill has a (very) large exposure to the collective 'network' of Gu
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Silent Data Corruptions at Scale(arxiv.org)
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by jsty 6y ago
If all Google wanted was GPL- and AGPL-free code, they're quite capable of assigning their own engineers / contractors to work on it rather than the more tortuous route of going via a 3rd party
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by jsty 6y ago
I'd also vouch for the near indestructibility of the normal USB-A variety - mine is still humming along despite being subjected over several years to no end of mishaps and abuse that would've killed any regular USB drive several t
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by jsty 6y ago
> implement this API but set it to return a hardcoded generic set of "interests" for everyone Or just let people select their own interests. There's quite a few (particularly news / media) sites I'd be fine in di
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by jsty 6y ago
> and programming Factorio extensions themselves Ah, good old extensionFactoryFactory, I knew that Java would come in handy one day
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by jsty 6y ago
To update an old teaching for modern times: He that is without security lapses among you, let him first impose sanction on those who have. Or to put it more bluntly - all users have flaws, and if your system relies on users not having flaws
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by jsty 6y ago
Ah, it was the butler - in the server room - with the ethernet cable. (Come to think of it, security Cluedo would be quite fun ...)
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by jsty 6y ago
> Hopefully, the "extend" and "extinguish" are not on the agenda. There are certain organisations whose prior behaviour precludes "hope" from a reasonable set of expectations. Whether or not Oracle is includ
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by jsty 6y ago
Whilst not being a "cloud is someone else's computer" adherent, the notion SaaS products can't be misconfigured into opening up security holes not present / so serious in some on-prem environments doesn't hold
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by jsty 6y ago
I didn’t know HN implemented RFC 2549
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by jsty 6y ago
Quick FYI - clicking the NavBar's "pricing" link on the "about" page links to "/about#pricing" rather than "/#pricing"
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by jsty 6y ago
Nice to see Bobby Tables is all grown up. Relevant discussion on the Companies House Developer Forum: https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-softw...
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by jsty 6y ago
> With the same sort of issues that SSN has Only if knowledge of one's "GUID" was regarded as sufficient to authenticate as them surely?
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‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI(theguardian.com)
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by jsty 6y ago
> Is there anything in Excel itself that behaves like that? I'd imagine the default error-handling behaviour of 9/10 Excel macros is to throw away data
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by jsty 6y ago
Their news operations are subsidised to the tune of ~£30m/yr by the charitable trust that owns them. Not in and of itself problematic, but accumulating a sizeable enough endowment to sufficiently fund operations isn't an option fo
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TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday(ft.com)
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Apple wins £11.8bn court fight over Irish tax bill(telegraph.co.uk)
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We're not all going to be working from home, nor should we(theguardian.com)
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ScrAPIr – Making APIs accessible to non-developers (MIT)(scrapir.org)
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by jsty 6y ago
It may also be worth looking into whether you can open a Foreign Currency account with a bank where you're incorporated which is probably a lot simpler than opening one cross-border. E.g. in the UK, Barclays offer these for a range of
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by jsty 6y ago
> the MITRE ATT&CK framework This looks incredibly useful, thanks for pointing it out For anyone else who's curious: https://attack.mitre.org/
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Abolish Silicon Valley – Wendy Liu(theguardian.com)
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by jsty 7y ago
You can use outline to read it: https://outline.com/xmDFJS
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by jsty 7y ago
Twist or premium plan feature? ;)
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by jsty 7y ago
I think they mean that if the headline is taken as written it implies everyone in the company being moved onto 70k - even if their salary was originally higher, not that the article actually states that this happened.
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MI5 chief asks tech firms for 'exceptional access' to encrypted messages(theguardian.com)
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