squidlogic

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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   I think of it like this: usability can be a security feature. If you build a "perfectly secure" piece of software, but it takes a very high level of skill to use it, your users will use something else that is easier to use, but le
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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   Regarding cryptolockers, if you have a backup drive on a SAN ... beware. Crypto ransomware will scan for any attached drives and encrypt those files as well. To make matters worse, your DropBox syncing software will automatically cryptoloc
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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   > Lesson learned - Be very circumspect when turning your back on 40 years of computer science. So true. We moved away from Mongo for very similar reasons, but we moved to Cassandra instead of Postgres only with great trepidation (we we
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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   Here's the study cited by the article: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/four_fu... The takeaway: "All this points to new top-management imperatives: keep an eye on the speed and dire
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   Visual cryptography(datagenetics.com)

   92 points by squidlogic 11y ago|6 comments
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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   Thanks, good thoughts!
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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   > You want to start with something very simple—as little surface area as possible—and launch it sooner than you’d think Honest question: does this model apply when your product can't at any point be, for lack of a better word, hal
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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   We use ZeroTier to encrypt our AWS microservices traffic. Way easier to setup and just ... works.
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   by squidlogic 11y ago

   For less important things, I agree, run of the mill TLS is enough. But for things that are critical to the business, trade secrets, strategy, SWOT analysis of a recent breach, etc, I think every company should have an e2ee chat/file s
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    by squidlogic 11y ago

    Maybe give balboa.io a try, it's the closest I can think of. Not just DMs but also file storage and transfer. Kind of similar UI to slack. Also, peerio.com, but they don't have a 'channels-like' interface, so maybe not
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    by squidlogic 11y ago

    Good to have another E2EE chat option. End to end encryption needs to be the new normal. It's not enough to just encrypt the connection to your service anymore. That might have been a feather in the caps of eCommerce sites in the 90
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    by squidlogic 11y ago

    Couldn't you have a browser plugin that would verify your js is being served up from the correct source?