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Internet Archive Was Exposing User Email Addresses Years Before Recent Breach(theintercept.com)
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by munchinator 3y ago
Sure. It's just curious to me that news article have a pirated knowledge link as the de facto top comment, but link submissions to, for example, books for sale on Amazon don't have a link to Anna's Archive or equivalent.
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by munchinator 3y ago
To make it an apples to apples comparison, look at submissions where the link submitted is the retail link to the IP. For example, look at all the book link submissions on AMZN... https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=amazo
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by munchinator 3y ago
It's interesting to me the ambiguous attitude people have to reproducing news content. Whenever there is a story from NYT on HN (or any other large media outlet), the top comment is almost always a link to an archived version which rep
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by munchinator 3y ago
> What would it serve to bankrupt the IA, they can't pay anyway? It would serve the termination of the infringement. My point is that the Times doesn't particular seem to care about infringement per se, they care about getting
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by munchinator 3y ago
Why hasn't the Times also sued the Internet Archive? They've tried to block both the Internet Archive [1] and Open AI [2] from archiving their site, but why have they only sued OAI and not IA? The fact that they haven't sued
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by munchinator 3y ago
Thank you! And will SBF remain in jail while awaiting the sentencing?
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by munchinator 3y ago
I'm not too familiar with the American system, could someone please explain how after the verdict does the sentencing work? The judge is the one who will now decide the sentence? And how long does that decision take, so when will we kn
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by munchinator 3y ago
I'm not seeing that mentioned in this blogpost, was it mentioned in one of the other ones?
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by munchinator 3y ago
It wasn't clear to me from reading the blogpost that persistence _wasn't_ achieved?
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by munchinator 3y ago
In terms of prevention strategies, it seems that given that the initial vector was a malicious iMessage attachment, Lockdown Mode would have prevented this attack? (As it disables iMessage attachments).
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by munchinator 3y ago
Fascinating reading. Would love to see a subsequent post in this series about attribution. Are there any code or other TTP similarities to APTs from known actors?
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by munchinator 3y ago
What I do is click the 'Report' button in the corner of that notification and then file a report saying that I received this pop-up, but that I do not have an adblocker. I like to think that if enough of us file reports, Youtube w