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by numair 5y ago
I would be interested to know if this has something to do with premium interchange. If it does, Amazon has basically just declared war on a bunch of fintechs’ no-/low-fee business models, where you get a ton of services and they get yo
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by numair 5y ago
Can’t they pull a J&J-type bankruptcy if things got really expensive for Google? I mean, obviously none of us expect this, but it’s still only possible when everything is in its own container.
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by numair 5y ago
> antitrust complaint against Alphabet's Google There’s gonna be high-fives and cigars for all of the lawyers and lobbyists who have successfully executed on the strategy to spin off the ultra-high-revenue-generating but secretly-
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by numair 5y ago
Thanks for posting this — it’s super-interesting. It seems as though it’s more about authenticating the server rather than the user , unless I read it wrong? The setup process looks a bit crazy, so I’m hoping it’s gotten easier since 201
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by numair 5y ago
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCalPlcbQUWX5caNedbKuWxAOUG+wFU2jtPUXmAcUDTIUgNz9JeW7cOAH1FPAcouIBM/0e48hdswSB2XHR0yHj3HvGx2KfB1lsd+FxXRR+dGPzO3WiMHXHdKogmHilk9U1ztwEFoZAkXuxvykv+Sn16j/xHXgFHdx5IDl/jyT5/IEIZHie
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by numair 5y ago
You know, if I was 17 and bored, I’d look up all of the keys for all of the people from national security agencies that have contributed to open source projects on GitHub and see if anything noteworthy turns up anywhere .
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by numair 5y ago
> historically revisionist? Yes. The “big banks lost money servicing the poor people” narrative is totally wrong, and the author knows this. We can’t let this incorrect story get more traction than it already has. Too many innocent peopl
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by numair 5y ago
Not at all! You’ve covered all of the major threat vectors that others would dismiss or not know about. You’ve got true expertise in this area, my friend.
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by numair 5y ago
You’re clearly super well-informed about this problem space. I’d like to talk to you about this a bit more, if you’re up for it — shoot me an email (it’s in my HN bio).
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by numair 5y ago
> If you find yourself ever crafting a security solution where public keys somehow need to be private or secret, go back to the drawing board or reach out to someone with serious expertise. I know you’re taking the “strict teacher” appro
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by numair 5y ago
Ahh yes, now that I think about it, I’ve seen this sort of implementation before: 1. Government forces you to jump through hoops with some collection of favored — sorry, I meant “authorized” — vendors who can issue you a certificate for $WT
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by numair 5y ago
> web application through which you input your private key and your password Sorry, what? Can you point me to some examples, because this sounds so crazy. Why would you ever upload your private key to a server? Sounds like security the
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by numair 5y ago
> Patio11's not doing PR or propoganda. An employee of a multinational financial services company writes a historically revisionist article about an area in which his company has direct regulatory and financial exposure.[1] With onl
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by numair 5y ago
We later learned that the executive in question hung out with Jeffrey Epstein... So... You might be on to something.
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by numair 5y ago
The system that maintains the banking oligarchy is a regulatory creation. We replaced the wildcat [bank] with the fat-cat [banker]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
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by numair 5y ago
There is Congressional testimony somewhere on this topic that provides their talking points. They were scolded without being actually punished, if I remember correctly.
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by numair 5y ago
Thanks for reminding me about reordering. There were (are?) just so many dirty tricks. It’s been a couple years since I’ve lived in the US, so I am not aware of what things look like now — hopefully others can comment.
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by numair 5y ago
That seems like yet another PR piece that revolves around a, “look, finance didn’t need regulatory action to fix itself, it just needed ‘innovation!’” narrative. No, sorry, these markets were created by regulatory action, and they still
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by numair 5y ago
The beginning of this article is a fairy tale that ignores what used to be one of the biggest drivers of revenue for banks: overdraft fees. Maybe the HN crowd has never been in a situation where they were auto-billed into a negative balance
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by numair 5y ago
There was a weird ad-post for You.com earlier, which I mistakenly thought was organic... And now this. HN needs a bit more transparency or it’s going to lose a few of us.
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by numair 5y ago
Hi Richard! I think competition against Google is a good thing, so I will give you and whoever else is tackling this area the strategic advice I would give myself if I was in this problem space. If you read the comments, including your own,
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by numair 5y ago
Have you told your client that you are making use of tools that upload the intellectual property they’ve shared with you / they’ve paid you to create for them, onto third-party servers? If I was paying for work and the contractor was u
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by numair 5y ago
100%. I have a friend who calls it the “country club phenomenon” — many foreigners come to Japan to relax, enjoy the “incredible level of service” in Japan, and opt-out of the work culture (which is a combination of both time and effort — t
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by numair 5y ago
Yikes, sorry — this is one of those domains that got registered in the InterNIC days and transferred off years later, so I never bothered to move the A record to an IP that doesn’t use an obnoxious parking page. I’ll add that to the to-do l
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by numair 5y ago
That Oracle-Fujitsu SPARC acquisition rumor is fascinating. Do you think Fujitsu's A64FX line can hold its own against Ampere's stuff and the AWS Graviton CPUs?
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by numair 5y ago
It’s the next thing on my list of things to write — and related to a very weird security vulnerability I’ve found in a lot of corporate workflows — so, it should be done sometime this month.
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by numair 5y ago
Thanks for the reminder!
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by numair 5y ago
Can you send me an email? Your bio on HN is empty...
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by numair 5y ago
I have no clue who Alex Berenson is, nor do I care. What I do know is, they have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. Source: I am a very close former friend of Dan’s who received several calls regarding the cause of death. And n
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by numair 5y ago
Ahh this is so useful that it's at the top of HN. We've (probably) arrived at one of those "hidden" dominant operating systems out there in the world: JavaCard OS. It's not just (probably) in your cell phone SIM, it

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