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by rxl 13y ago
I understand your concern, but these days, cloud or no cloud isn't what's important, just that you use a data store in a HIPAA compliant fashion and that the provider will sign a BAA. Health tech startups these days are using AWS,
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by rxl 13y ago
It would be awesome if someone set up a db like the one you're describing, where users could identify trolls anonymously and submit other information about them, including links to parent companies.
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Iranians Gain Access to Facebook and Twitter(nytimes.com)
4 points by rxl 13y ago|0 comments
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by rxl 13y ago
I appreciate your modesty Ryan, but one should consider that your book IS about manipulating the media. In fact, in the trailer for your book, you specifically detail how you can create buzz about an article or book (through these very mean
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by rxl 13y ago
It's perfectly within reason to have respect for him. I have no reason to do otherwise and I actually think he's pretty clever. I'd just note that being in the personal circles of talented authors is quite different from bein
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by rxl 13y ago
Perhaps, but unlikely. And regardless, I know Ryan is. Also, yes, I realize that bad press is good press and that this controversy will probably drive Ryan even more sales, just by virtue of the fact that more people are talking about his b
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by rxl 13y ago
Well done, Ryan. Well done.
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by rxl 13y ago
This list, compiled by Chris Johnson, includes a book called "Trust Me, I'm Lying", by Ryan Holiday. One thing to note is that Chris worked with Ryan and has a close relationship with him (Chris actually wrote the trailer for
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Don't Miss Out on the Quora Distribution Gold Mine(smitpatel.com)
3 points by rxl 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are There Any Startups Trying to Bring Us Cheaper Cell Phone Service?
1 points by rxl 13y ago|3 comments
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by rxl 13y ago
That is correct. If the NSA or any other organization really wants to read your message, it will be able to. There are several ways to accomplish this (including what you just mentioned as well as the image sifting and OCR method I included
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by rxl 13y ago
In the unlikely scenario that the app was compromised and stayed compromised, you would be correct. However, if it was compromised and the situation was quickly rectified, only sent but unread messages would be able to be read. If a service
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by rxl 13y ago
Well, the image containing the message is only ever served once. If the recipient navigates away from the email and then opens the email again, the image containing the message will be replaced with a different image (the message will be go
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by rxl 13y ago
As people have said, there is always a way from someone to intercept a message. An organization can, at the ISP level, intercept all images that you access in your browser and then perform OCR on the images you receive to extract the messag
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by rxl 13y ago
Yes, if the server is compromised before a recipient reads a particular email, that can allow the attacker to read that email. However, all emails that are read are deleted from the server and unread emails are automatically deleted after a
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by rxl 13y ago
When the email is sent, there is no record of the message. There is only an image URI that points to the image that contains the message. So, the NSA won't be able to grab a copy as it's sent. However, if an organization has the a
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by rxl 13y ago
Why do people opt to talk on the phone or use off-the-record gchat instead of send something over email? In both cases, the conversation can still be stored, but the point is to use a communication method for which there is no automatic sto
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NSA-Proof Your Email Without Encryption(ryaneshea.com)
14 points by rxl 13y ago|20 comments
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by rxl 14y ago
Agreed, I seriously wouldn't recommend sending that information online at all, but the unfortunate thing is that some people send it through email anyway. A more appropriate use case would be to send a secret that isn't damning, but that yo
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by rxl 14y ago
You bring up a valid concern - I'd say that this isn't something that you'd use all the time with your email, but it has its time and place (just like off-the-record gchat), and when it is needed, it really comes in handy.
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by rxl 14y ago
What email client are you using? Are you rendering the html in the email? There should be an image displayed below that text.
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by rxl 14y ago
Think about gchat's off-the-record feature. Anyone can copy and paste an entire conversation, but the thing is, most people aren't motivated enough to copy every single one, so you have an added element of safety. Further, everyone I use gh
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by rxl 14y ago
When a landlord is doing a credit check, you can also send your SSN with some peace of mind.
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by rxl 14y ago
You could also record all of your phone conversations and copy all of your off-the-record gchats into text documents, couldn't you? The point isn't for this to be absolutely foolproof, but rather that when you have a somewhat sensitive conv
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Show HN: Emails that Self-Destruct and Notify You When Read(ghostmailapp.com)
27 points by rxl 14y ago|44 comments
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A New Scribble on Your Dollar Bill(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by rxl 14y ago|0 comments
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by rxl 14y ago
The problem I see with this article is that it trashes one particular company and the VC backing of that company and attempts to use that to make a larger point about vc-backed e-commerce companies in general. So OK, maybe that company isn'
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Don't Make a New Year's Resolution(rshea.me)
1 points by rxl 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Cascade, An Image Viewer for Any URL(usecascade.com)
4 points by rxl 14y ago|1 comments
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by rxl 14y ago
You're right, I feel like it can be useful in so many contexts. And I'm sure there is one application that will hit it out of the park. I just can't put my finger on it, though.

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