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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Who is dodging what now? (Not trying to be facetious -forgive me, I'm just not really following.)
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
There are lawyers who do this type of negotiation. > HR/hiring people will look at you like you're some kind of weirdo if you balk at any of it. Here are the reactions to my reluctance as I recall them. Right. Go over them. You
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> So very anti-capitalistic. Depends. Is this an entry level programmer? If so, is that entry level programmer fresh out of college and making $150k? Or is an executive making $500k? Is there an equity package? Or is this some guy making
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
That taking more than a month to push an update necessary to run on the most recent (and most secure) release of a major OS is not a satisfactory basis for communications software . I don't think it is reasonable to leave users hangin
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> an NDA agreement with his company that pretty much said everything he developed, verbalized, or put to paper -- during work or after -- was IP of that company That is not an NDA. It simply isn't. NDA covers non-disclosure of con
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Very good point.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Super. Upvote for you.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Mailvelope: https://www.mailvelope.com/en/
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> As a developer, I wouldn't risk investing in this feature. Are you developing or working on anything related to email?
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Thank you kindly, dotcomrade.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
What do you use for CI? And yes, that is a great question. I would love to know. I guess, however, the follow-up question is how current the audit package is kept. It seems like this is the sort of thing that would need -constant- update in
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
I just looked at the paper, very briefly. Below is kind of a tl;dr (please do not hestitate to correct me if I got anything wrong [though that particular statement goes without saying on this site...]) * Based on the below text (taken from
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> But given the lack of clear answers, I'd much rather err on the side of preventing victimization. In America, we have historically low crime rates and historically low violent crime rates. Simultaneously, we have an insane crisis
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Good sn.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Right - you are describing a very well written worm up at the top of your comment. However, in my experience (disclaimer: the plural of anecdote is not data, I am very well aware of this), the frequency of worms and viruses that are release
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Right, but I believe I have seen the threat model I describe actually functioning in the wild - cryptoviruses that archive files on your local drive that are likely to contain passwords and then mail them to the C&C server. Would local
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Dunno if you are still checking this thread, but I had a followup to this question. It seems to me that certain cryptoviruses function in the following way (e.g. certain variants of ransom_vxlock - I will see if I can find a specific exampl
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
I agree. Also, saying that I haven't heard of Law 2.0 is like asserting a particular developer hasn't heard of Web 2.0. It's... a strange accusation, to say the least. And one that distinguishes you as an outsider.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
This is precisely the issue. Excellent example.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Literally all of the important stuff. In a recent contract I worked on the definition of "material adverse effect" took up a page of single spaced 12 point times new roman text and had about two dozen other definitions involved. E
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> While laws and contract terms are written in natural language, this is an AI-complete problem. Beautiful way of putting it. I want to take it one step further, however: While laws and contracts are written for human consumption this
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
It sounds like a tech-crunch article on legaltech run through a markov chain.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
I genuinely cannot tell if you are trolling.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
I do not buy this for a minute and to be fair the headline misrepresents the much more sober tone of the actual article, to the authors' credit. I am not a fan of cryptocurrency in general (that is another argument for another day) so
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
So, hopefully without shooting my mouth off (this time), here are some lessons I have been learning (the hard way) about SJCL: * The SJCL library appears to be really great. It is super simple to use and has great documentation. Dan Boneh h
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
> You blog sounds like the PR spin that came out of Aereo, a company that spent an inordinate amount of effort to stay within the absolute letter of a law. Without reading the blog, I just wanted to comment on Aereo: a lot of us think th
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
I spent a fair amount of time reading up on the wikileaks last night. While the released info does appear to not be beyond KitKat, the array of listed hacks is staggering. Have you had a chance to look? I understand that there are very fine
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
So, tell me what I am misunderstanding here: * On OSX, OS passwords are stored in the keychain. * However, Chrome stores passwords in a local SQLite database https://www.howtogeek.com/70146/how-secure-are-your-saved-ch.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
You can check again - I have changed the language. That was improper and thanks for the feedback.
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by libertymcateer 10y ago
Regarding professionals? I hear you - loud and clear. I want you to know, very sincerely, I appreciate your feedback over the past two days. Some lessons (re-)learned: * Security is a conclusion, not an assertion - it is improper to present

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