thesimon

46 ms·

451.
by thesimon 11y ago
Sorry for the late reply. Maybe check out Entropay, they are 4.95% though. Some airline booking sites even provide a discount when paying with one.
452.
by thesimon 11y ago
My German bank does the same, my UK bank just asks for details that are written on the card. Seems a bit ... weak and prone to attacks.
453.
by thesimon 11y ago
For what reason? Amazon offers their own free certs [0] and I doubt you can get an LE cert for a local IP address. [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/aws/new-aws-certificate-mana...
454.
by thesimon 11y ago
Credit cards are hard to get in Europe? If you are talking about cards with credit line, sure, but debit/prepaid cards are pretty easy to get (e.g. Number26, Monese, Revolut, Fidor etc).
455.
by thesimon 11y ago
Thanks for sharing. Did you try using it for captchas? :)
456.
by thesimon 11y ago
A german banking app already tried to do something similar [0], but used the QR code to encode an URL containing all data instead. It seems a bit more efficient. But FWIW, it never got popular. I guess you can tell by the design of the webs
457.
by thesimon 11y ago
>Debit cards however, are very common, Agree. Sadly most of the times the stores are only accepting the shitty domestic "girocard" scheme and not international brands of debit crds. >visiting the local bakery. Kamps usually
458.
by thesimon 11y ago
> Actually, even in larger shops like Ikea, credit cards are not accepted. Some IKEAs accept credit cards, whereas others don't. IIRC it depends on how close they are to the border.
459.
by thesimon 11y ago
>It saves business owners 3% or so on processing fees For a "cashless society" surely the fees will be regulated. FWIW, the EU recently limited interchange fees for credit/debit card transactions to 0.2% for debit cards an
460.
by thesimon 11y ago
> But I recall handling costs for businesses being an argument in the debate to abolish pennies (in the US) or 1ct/2ct coints (in Europe). FWIW, the merchants in one city in Germany are currently trying to stop accepting 1ct/2c
461.
by thesimon 11y ago
Further examples: I have a bank account in Germany and UK and neither charge me for bank transfers. I haven't even heard of a bank account that charges for transfers in Germany. This might differ for commercial accounts though.
462.
by thesimon 11y ago
And they are using NFC for that?
463.
by thesimon 11y ago
Could also be solved by using the passport instead of the identity card. The NFC-feature can't be disabled and most people have NFC smartphones (well, at least the people who are using AirBnB)
464.
by thesimon 11y ago
It seems like it was not http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/new-os-x-...
465.
by thesimon 11y ago
And according to the analysis [0], this is exactly what they did. They used a different cert to sign their malware. I have to admit that Windows' UAC is better in that regard, as it shows the signees name. But of course this is only us
466.
by thesimon 11y ago
>meaning an order to produce information. But couldn't they write a modified iOS software themselves (obviously not easy as cake, but for the sake of the argument) and use a NSL to get Apple's key to sign the update? It seems l
467.
by thesimon 11y ago
And it's not even $240/year, you need a paid MailChimp plan as well, so the total costs is at least $360/year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713 "free forever" -> $360/year in a
468.
by thesimon 11y ago
It feels like BMW, Porsche, Audi and then the rest
469.
by thesimon 11y ago
>spend the money you save on offices and increase developers salary. Yeah, the salary of the developers is usually increased when moving into a lower cost of living area, because of all the money the company saves thanks to the low offic
470.
by thesimon 11y ago
Oh okay. In Germany they use "BTOpenzone".
471.
by thesimon 11y ago
IIRC there is an exception in the law for ISPs and Airfy registered as an ISP.
472.
by thesimon 11y ago
Doesn't Starbucks use BTOpenzone?
473.
by thesimon 11y ago
> I then write a cheque to move USD across the border, and use VBCE to convert USD to CAD at market - 35 basis points (aka. about 2% better than what Paypal offers). Transferwise might be cheaper/easier
474.
by thesimon 11y ago
>Even then, the sender is the receiver. I'm not sure how that would work. Used WU before to send money to myself when my debit card chip was broken and it would've taken too long for an replacement to ship. No issues at all. (C
475.
by thesimon 11y ago
With just a few "minor" issues with safety and waste.
476.
by thesimon 11y ago
>How many criminals are you willing to let get away with their crimes? So you are saying Apple is only helping criminals with encryptions? And because weakening encryption can not only be used in special cases (you mention child abusers
477.
Powa raised $175 mio to revolutionize shopping – now goes into administration(finextra.com)
2 points by thesimon 11y ago|0 comments
478.
by thesimon 11y ago
Agree, edited. It feels like they have no clue at all how it happened, but want to fix some issues nevertheless. I'm not sure if they thought this would bring confidence back. Because if so, they failed hard.
479.
by thesimon 11y ago
It seems like the post creates more questions than it answers, but it's great that they are sort of transparent. I guess it's due to ongoing investigation. But it is quite surprising that someone was able to acquire the key for th
480.
by thesimon 11y ago
Which usually results in the data being deleted though

More ›