traderj0e

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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I call myself a computer programmer unless someone is asking for my official job title (software engineer)
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Nah it is
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I'm confused too. Cloudflare is a DNS, anti-ddos, CDN, and light cloud
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Denying scammers the ability to use VPNs and virtual phone farms without standing out does make their job harder
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Nobody cares about very temporary outages, they care about support
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
What do they use instead? Grass tends to be greener on the other side. Though it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft offered better support despite having a worse product.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I get the difficulty of fighting spam, just wanted to say that Gmail is probably making them money too. It's still free to make an account, which means they have to be careful who they give it to.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Yep. In general I'm glad I have so many random accounts now that everyone is getting more protective, it's like a credit score.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
The stuff they've shut down has been nowhere near as important as Gmail.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Basically wanted to stop paying for Ukraine and send the money to Israel instead
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I vaguely remember running into that too a few times, strangely not on every doc. Also one particular part of the Chase mortgage website.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
e2ee in Instagram would be absurd
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Signal isn't nice to use on multiple devices. I'd lose my chats if I lost my phone without backing up the keys. Actually WhatsApp somehow deleted my chats even though I restored my phone from backup, idk. Signal also stops notifyi
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
In practice it's possible to make a system that's hard to mitm if users are diligent. WhatsApp publishes a public record of hashes of the keys. If both sides check that record against their local keys, it's hard for WhatsAp
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
If there's no concern of mitm on the telephone then yeah.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
You shouldn't be talking down like this, you're wrong about it. Alice and Bob need to exchange keys beforehand in some trusted out-of-band way. There's no protocol that solves this if Eve can be in the middle. I'm not su
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
The only way to avoid this issue is if Alice and Bob can talk out-of-band. There's no protocol that fixes this.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
No, it's not at all this simple. This is why so many "e2ee" apps like Telegram are bogus, they ended up prioritizing UX over security because there are many places where you can't pick both.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
It should be, otherwise where is that key coming from?
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
This is exactly what I expected, and it's good to hear from someone with experience.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
FB Messenger was nice and simple before they added the clunky e2ee feature, and it's not even secure cause it's just 6 digits of entropy. WhatsApp e2ee is solid. It's painful if you have multiple devices, but it was designed
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Well except for the people here who love IRC. They must not like e2ee.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Exactly. E2EE comes with UX consequences that you can't just bolt on later. There might be something to be outraged about, but this alone isn't it.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Instagram wasn't set up this way. If you install it on a new phone or open it in-browser, you aren't expected to give it a recovery key to get your DMs back. They did add e2ee for FB Messenger, and it was very clunky besides not b
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
POT OF GREED
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
Yeah that's a valid concern. Idk, nothing about this setup makes sense.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
The argument others are making is that Google has a monopoly on browser engines, or that it's becoming that way. IE switched to Chromium partially to resolve compatibility issues. I don't have a strong opinion on this though.
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
The VPS is your security in this case. It's not sending plaintext over the internet, is it? Edit: No, the article mentions listening on port 80 at home. I thought they'd be SSH tunneling or something. That is unusual, but I guess
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
There's no QT vs GTK situation on Mac. Windows has more of a mix of UI, but at least compatibility tends to be preserved. Besides that, macOS and Windows each only have one DE and one window system. So in tutorials or IT help, it'
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by traderj0e 5mo ago
I'm sure Reddit moderators think they're good guys with guns. In reality the bots they pat themselves on the back for were just annoyances. Bye clankers!

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