rando444

9 ms·

31.
by rando444 7y ago
I can guarantee you that 99% of every company that has a copy of your PII has employees that can connect to work resources via VPN.
32.
by rando444 7y ago
It's not about the collection so much as it is about how they use it. They're going to be making money off you. It's important that you don't have a means to claim retribution.
33.
by rando444 7y ago
The biggest issue here is failing to relate to your intended audience. (IMHO) The type of people that lose their secret keys are the type that don't know to back them up in the first place. They would never know to look for a service l
34.
by rando444 7y ago
This was entirely reactionary. Microsoft looked at what AWS was doing and realized they were getting left in the dust and they are still playing catch up, albeit in very good shape. Nadella discusses having to catch up to AWS in his book. B
35.
by rando444 7y ago
Your phone microphone can be enabled remotely and the means to do so can be controlled through the baseband processor. The Snowden leaks revealed that this had been an attack vector available and used for years. The method they were using h
36.
by rando444 7y ago
It should also be noted that the majority of the whale meat produced by these countries is sold to Japan.
37.
by rando444 7y ago
50-100MB seems like a miniscule amount of space to warrant something like this. My WinSxS folder alone is almost 10GB. If they wanted to save space, even a modest improvement in managing updates would yield space saving results orders of m
38.
by rando444 7y ago
You still need a URL though. Might as well just use DNS txt fields.
39.
by rando444 7y ago
I think it's a problem of management not knowing what to do with developers once you have a solid stable product. Without proper direction people just keep adding features that are only used by a tiny subset of the userbase, and you en
40.
by rando444 7y ago
We have something like that, which you find in the airport and various places. https://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandicpledge/ The people that need to read it the most though, either don't or don't care.
41.
by rando444 7y ago
This isn't exactly accurate. WOW air, the budget airline that was offering cheap flights from the US is now bankrupt. They were able to offer the flights so cheap because they were operating at a loss trying to take market share away
42.
by rando444 7y ago
The point your parent is making is that in the US this information can be used to impersonate people. In countries with modern identity solutions, this is not possible.
43.
by rando444 7y ago
That's literally the best possible result though. The only alternatives I can think of are using the military's encrypted gps, or tesla launching their own encrypted GPS satellite network. .. neither of which seem like realistic
44.
by rando444 7y ago
You have a warped view of world politics if you think countries are incapable of making their own decisions and need to be told what is best for them. That aside, it's more or less common knowledge these days that the planes have not b
45.
by rando444 7y ago
Both parties are to blame. The Swiss company is to blame for making the mistake. China telecom is to blame for not putting in place basic safeguards to prevent this. Typos happen, everyone makes mistakes. Luckily internet routing has a sys
46.
by rando444 7y ago
>The hydrogen tanks themselves are so robust that you can shoot them with a gun without knocking them 'knocking them' ... I'm very curious what he meant by that
47.
by rando444 7y ago
Without knowing the details and assuming it's not smoke and mirrors, 'extended range' implies that something extra is happening to get the car further. Otherwise it would just be the vehicle's normal driving range.
48.
by rando444 7y ago
>Wojcicki was also building out an in-house drug-research group and tapping into a new revenue source: recruiting thousands of patients from 23andMe’s database for pharmaceutical firms’ clinical trials. This is the most responsible way
49.
by rando444 7y ago
Places like shopping malls use just your devices hardware ids to track your movements. To me just the fact that these things are on when you ask for them to be off is problematic.
50.
by rando444 7y ago
This incident is old now, it is acknowledged that this was a mistake made by the telecom itself.
51.
by rando444 7y ago
Most phones have a radio antenna, it's just not a default application feature for whatever reason. If you're running an android phone, you should be able to enable a radio with little trouble.
52.
by rando444 7y ago
I agree with this sentiment But I think you'd have to be naïve to think "they trust me, dumb fucks" .. and facebook's corporate disregard for user privacy are wholly unrelated.
53.
by rando444 7y ago
The key bit is at the end: >It also reveals that China Telecom, a major International carrier, has still implemented neither the basic routing safeguards necessary both to prevent the propagation of routing leaks nor the processes and p
54.
by rando444 7y ago
I'm a bit late to the party, but Hetzner actually deleted all my VMs and backups. Their abuse team didn't like my name, despite me also having my name in my e-mail and my credit card info. I got an e-mail that my account was flag
55.
by rando444 7y ago
This was my take as well. I am doubtful the author is truly managing people carelessly across 14 time zones without jumping through significant legal hoops, or is rather hiring contractors instead that manage their own legal responsibilitie
56.
by rando444 7y ago
I think each client decides, or can make its own decision. This problem comes up a lot if you have a client that wasn't set with English as the default language.
57.
by rando444 7y ago
This question is open to anyone: I'm extremely curious what the business model here is. Who is paying for this to be created, and what do they get out of it in the long run?
58.
by rando444 7y ago
If you read the article, they say it's anything marijuana related that has a shopping cart. The apps are legal as long as google isn't the one processing money from drug related transactions. Which, while disappointing, does make
59.
by rando444 7y ago
These are just features and settings, there's no requirement to use them. The main point isn't listed on the page. The Enterprise installer installs Chrome to the operating system. Regular chrome installs in your user profile.
60.
by rando444 7y ago
General population will follow the tech crowd. The main reason Chrome is so popular is because tech people have been saying "just use chrome" for forever. Firefox is taking back that role. It'll take time, but with google be

More ›