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by riter 7y ago
Some of these applications were intended to be tongue in cheek and point out ethical applications were up to the imagination.
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by riter 7y ago
Not untrue. And its one ngnix ec2 instance away from silently changing it from anyone who joins a channel to read the message to the world indexing all those messages.
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by riter 7y ago
Fair point. At the very least it highlights the security model of OSS in general.
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by riter 7y ago
I wholly admit the title was a bit charged and I appreciate the correction from the mod(s). That said, it questions the security model of privacy apps and the nature of open source. As I mentioned above, there is a reason they make it a hu
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by riter 7y ago
This is effectively true, baseline it is indistinguishable from a "real" person, questioning the security model of openness and potential for mass social engineering. There is a reason why the hurdle of overcoming scaling the crea
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by riter 7y ago
Yes, it does use MTProto and yes it is a real user. And yes admittedly the title in retrospect was a bit charged but the applications remain the same if extended.
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by riter 7y ago
Yes, the click button is on the todo. I have encountered these and the common one is the button click followed by the basic arithmetic. Solvable but anything beyond this would "defeat" it.
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Informer: A bot library that allows masquerading as real users on Telegram(github.com)
204 points by riter 7y ago|86 comments
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by riter 10y ago
I used to know and work with Delamar at a startup but for the music industry and ringtones... also, with similar concluding results. SMH.
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by riter 12y ago
+bump
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by riter 12y ago
I would imagine of they happen to be an S or C Corporations. I believe C-Corps are mandated to go public if they exceed 100 shareholders per SEC. It also depends.
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GameDesign.io – A HackerNews for Game Designers(gamedesign.io)
2 points by riter 13y ago|0 comments
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by riter 13y ago
"Yes, the perp is some Puerto Rican guy of average Puerto Rican height"
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by riter 13y ago
Laws against anonymizing sources of income (Money laundering) are primarily enforced for tax evasion purposes. It's the catch all for even the most brilliant of enterprising "criminals".
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by riter 13y ago
Godwin's Law much?