mkal_tsr

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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
And you will 100% maintain that position for the next 5 contiguous decades without falter?
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
My point in my OP was to not play the game of catch-up, don't even pitch in your vuln strs. Any time you want to show me a 100% future-proof algorithm for sensitive-info detection that works across any/all code on github, I'd
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
But that's my point. It's not basic because it's so context dependent (hence the comment about the regex/functions). No matter how clever you get with your pattern matching, you're going to have to always play ca
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
80/20 rule goes a looooooong way, but relying on a 3rd party to handle your infosec is terribly misguided. Offloading your net/infoseq issues to a 3rd party doesn't guarantee you understand the attack surface nor mitigation
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> there should be a feature request for Github to provide a prompt in case Github detects sensitive information in the code hosted. Sure, just enumerate any and all possible types of sensitive data, the format they may be in, regex &#x2F
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I just chose the not 100%-false option of the two ;-)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
You don't think the ability to use photographs of hands/fingers and used for fingerprint readers is relevant to a quote about using fingerprints as passwords has a security gap of consent? I'm sorry but what? We've see
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I posted the original source from the creator, the Twitter account which made the Imgur album. I have swapped the .jpg with the text quote ... I just find it odd HN is so primary-source averse.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
It's a meme by that twitter account
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
I think Taylor Swift said it best, Remember: Fingerprint locks are convenient, but they discard your ability to "forget" or refuse to unlock a device. They remove consent. [ source - https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecu
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> We have no problems feeding our gullible users to the Google beast, yet we should be the ones warning others to take their privacy serious? I've found Piwik to be a great open-source (+ self-hosted) alternative - http:/&#x2F
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. (If you do flush out your thesis, I'd love to read it)
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
My tradition is watching "The Muppet Christmas Carol" every Christmas
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
This short docu explores that a bit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
"However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Prior to 1951, the official handbook stated that each color corresponded to a particular continent: blue for Europe, yellow for Asia, black for Africa, green for Australia and
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
"Disrupting vocabulary"
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Guy Williams has your back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AG4odHCokw
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> Men don't get equivalently "punished" when they have a child How long is the average paternity leave for new fathers? Or are you suggesting that fathers don't have a right to paternity leave and thus raise their ch
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Just seemed weird to me to mention doing it in a secretive/unconsenting manner, of people you're supposed to trust, and handing off private conversations to third parties without asking. It says a lot about respect toward one ano
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
>to secretly diagnosing my co-workers. Interesting that you explicitly mention you'd do it without their knowledge/consent...
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
> What oversight mechanism can possibly protect users from themselves? Never using VC backed services seems to be the first step.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
The original OP I replied to asserted it was a negative-only application. But it is just a tool and blaming the code for the actions of its users erases any good that it may also do. And just as TOR, proxies, and VPNs can be abused, they
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
>They also got a lot of problems in Brazil due to schoolchildren using it for harassment -- Google and Apple received court orders to remove the application from their stores. How is a court order not considered banning?
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
>I personally have imagined the golden potential behind an anonymous social network (particularly when it comes to data mining [...]) See, that right there. That is why your anonymous social network isn't going to work or catch on.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Should we ban TOR then? What about VPNs? Anonymity all together? What's the line?
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
You can also use Amazon with the 'smile' subdomain (smile.amazon.com) to support a charities and organizations with every purchase, and the EFF is one of the possible choices.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Except by answering captchas, you're helping the machines (first words for books, then numbers for street view, now pictures for classification).
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
The EFF is doing important work. I hope everyone has either donated to them or switched their smile.amazon.com over to EFF. Or at least for the software/hardware people on HN.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Whenever I warn friends about this, I get called a conspiracy theorist :-/ We have a long way to go in educating the general public about technology, its benefits, and its pitfalls.
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by mkal_tsr 12y ago
Gender-based discrimination against one gender has nothing to do with gender-based discrimination against a different gender? My, what logic you have!

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