trotsky

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by trotsky 15y ago
Of course we do. And so do the french, germans, russians, brits, koreans, australians - well, you get the point. And it's far from just against traditional enemies. Did you catch the incident where the Americans informed the Australians tha
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by trotsky 15y ago
description of "The Chinese Way of Hacking" Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (not an insult, it's very effective)
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by trotsky 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2752711
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by trotsky 15y ago
best of luck on your crusade.
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by trotsky 15y ago
I hope you're never interested in a job in commercial software - it's be very hard for many of these firms to stay in business if every disgruntled committer was legally clear to leak your whole source code base to the competition or the wo
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by trotsky 15y ago
The author's main issue seems to be with the explanation that running software from the internet is risky, since he removes that in both dialogs. And yet it's unquestionably true - running code from the internet be it signed or unsigned is
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by trotsky 15y ago
Yeah, but no. If I want to make a home or specialty video and give it away to a few folks but not sell it, that doesn't give you any kind of moral right to take it and give it to the world. And it certainly shouldn't give you the legal righ
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by trotsky 15y ago
even if we aren't one of the 'cool crowd' Funny what a difference a couple of decades makes. Saying something like that in 1991 about programmers would have been obvious, biting sarcasm.
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by trotsky 15y ago
The way the copy reads it immediately makes me suspicious tech crunch did a redesign solely to milk the "outrage" publicity. It's really not that far beyond linkbait.
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by trotsky 15y ago
From somebody who has actually worried about such anachronisms as air gapped networks, I can tell you that in a lot of secure environments usb and ieee io was actually physically disconnected. This has taken a pretty hard hit recently, as m
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by trotsky 15y ago
Nope definitely not, there is a wide gulf between the two. It's just if they were using their own zero days then it'd be pretty obvious that I was wrong.
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by trotsky 15y ago
Lol, wait what? Which 0-days has it been shown they're using, let alone ones they developed themselves? I think the phrase here is citation needed. If you're using private zero days to break into systems you're almost assuredly not telling
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by trotsky 15y ago
but if a script kiddie could do that and get this information it's likely this information may well have been compromised before now, we just haven't heard of it. Hi. This happens all the time. There is evidence of far more significant da
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by trotsky 15y ago
Seems like a real stretch to me. HBGary like _targeted_intrusions_ with corresponding broad private information disclosures might have a bit of claim to that theory. But as far as I can tell you just saw a couple of script kiddies run autom
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by trotsky 15y ago
I think it's a symptom of all of the advice in web 2.0 etc. entrepreneurial circles along the lines of "promoting brand you" and "always be blogging". A certain segment seems to believe in always offering their opinion on everything even if
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by trotsky 15y ago
to the extent we think it necessary for the Service. I know HN only has one viewpoint on these matters. However, I was hoping someone could explain to this poor soul how a scenario like the following is ruled out by this language: I'm the
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by trotsky 15y ago
I'm not lying, at the time a trojan /bin/login was state of the art. Run of the mill hacking was calling up a strange system and using the login: guest to get access, or trying women's names as passwords over and over until you got lucky. A
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by trotsky 15y ago
It was a different age, with different social norms. Hacking didn't have anything close to the stigma that it rightfully has now, and most incidents weren't malicious. If you had an account broken into back then there wasn't the same sense
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by trotsky 15y ago
I really hope somebody is giving out the best clusterfuck of the year awards soon, because this just nailed it.
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by trotsky 15y ago
I understand what you mean, most legalese can seem quite imposing out of context. The nut of the problem for me is that it's obvious you're intending a profit making venture (tos, etc.) but you aren't telegraphing where the money comes from
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by trotsky 15y ago
probably the idea originator has already been down this rabbit hole, for better or worse douchebaggery is a coveted ad demo. bling.
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by trotsky 15y ago
I look at: https://coderbuddy1.appspot.com/legal/tos and it immediately makes me concerned that anything written in the service that was later deemed exceptionally valuable would get lawyer locked. I don't have the same concerns with gcc,
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by trotsky 15y ago
It seems to be an attempt to reinvent the megacorp with looser managerial boundaries. When you have the capital and the experience it's inevitable that you'll want to push ideas down from the top, but the venture game got like this in the f
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by trotsky 15y ago
While I don't doubt that blocking competition is a happy incidental, the timing of when facebook and twitter were initially blocked makes it clear what the primary purpose was. July 2009, just after the big Iranian election demonstrations t
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by trotsky 15y ago
So much for the $200MM they were trying to pass it off for less than five months ago. [1] I don't know their numbers, but doesn't it seem likely that 35 is less than 1x revenue? [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-04/news-corp-may-ge
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Gold rush - A bitcoin mining trojan(securelist.com)
1 points by trotsky 15y ago|0 comments
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New Patriot Act Controversy: Is Washington Collecting Your Cell-Phone Data?(time.com)
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by trotsky 15y ago
Lots and lots of people in the valley and elsewhere were wary of a bubble '97-'00. We used to talk about it all the time. That didn't stop it from happening. Mr. Horowitz needs to ensure that in the next few years he can sell on the public
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by trotsky 15y ago
A better question is why most of it even got covered at all. Script kiddies deface and publish all the time - the only reason the press was covering at all was because it was pushed and packaged in PR friendly ways. Yawn.
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by trotsky 15y ago
I deleted it, it was redundant.

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