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by vageli 7y ago
How many times do we hear complaints from the community about open source shipping with insecure defaults, yet we expect security to be a premium feature we must pay for from SaaS?
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by vageli 7y ago
> So security should be free? That kind of implies something about its worth that I might not think is the author's intention. By this sentiment, does Let's Encrypt debase the value of security as well?
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by vageli 7y ago
What a time to be alive. This is incredible. I wonder what those balloons in the case are used for.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Well then the obvious solution is to start treating phone numbers as you would an email address - effectively public. > I would love a version of privacy.com for phone numbers.. I've used google voice and twilio for something s
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by vageli 7y ago
> Being behind a nat, without any firewall, is more than enough to protect against this. In other words, you need to work hard to be affected by this "backdoor". So long as the device does not utilize UPnP and get the gateway t
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by vageli 7y ago
> Tyrannical dictatorships are an emergent property of Marxism. When you stop allocating resources based on competence, and instead based on other factors, whoever gets to decide these factors ends up with all the wealth and power, since
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by vageli 7y ago
> I know this is the popular conclusion - but from a developer perspective, data such as what software your product is used with is INCREDIBLY valuable for project planning and prioritization. People hate web tracking, but knowing what b
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by vageli 7y ago
>What there isn't is a good quick way of scanning a room for all the stuff in it. This would be incredible for insurance documentation, too.
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by vageli 7y ago
How would you quantify merit?
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by vageli 7y ago
> Sure they do! (Assuming you're not kidding.) > Make the cell connections a secure protocol, instead of something any asshole with an antenna can spoof & create a portable "cell tower". A single carrier likely coul
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by vageli 7y ago
> Unless they knowingly and intentionally broke criminal law, that's completely over the top and unnecessary. Why? If I drive drunk and a cop pulls me over, lack of knowledge is no defense. As the head of a company, why is a lack of
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by vageli 7y ago
Yeah, why aren't breathalyzers mandated in every vehicle? Even though we as a society pretty uniformly agree (from the people I've spoken with) that drunk driving is bad in every case, why don't we resort to such extreme meas
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by vageli 7y ago
I have started to write "this form was blank when I was asked to sign" with the date and my initials diagonally across the page over the fields that would be later filled.
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by vageli 7y ago
> > "I have no position!" he cried. "If you have a position, it is always something screwed down." He twisted an invisible screwdriver into the table. "I have opinions that I defend rather vigorously, and then
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by vageli 7y ago
> The problem is they all magically arrived at an exorbitant price that seems to reflect monopoly pricing. Also fees have standardized recently. Playing devil's advocate, if the market determines prices then isn't settling on a
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by vageli 7y ago
> It's laughably adorable to think it's actually solving a problem or helping in any way, the 'bad actors' it's trying to prevent probably have a work around anyway. They do—changing your user agent is trivial.
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by vageli 7y ago
Any sufficiently bad actor will already modify their user agent. Who is this really stopping?
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by vageli 7y ago
> > All individual rights are carved out from the default government > Not sure this is how you meant it. If you mean to say that rights come from governments that is not quite correct, at least not in the US. > Rights, in the U
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by vageli 7y ago
Where can one read more about this?
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by vageli 7y ago
I'm with you but parent specifically said they were not running an exit node.
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by vageli 7y ago
Is it just me or is it somewhat humorous that the checkout uses Shopify and not stripe?
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by vageli 7y ago
> i used to run a tor node but then my bank blocked me because i was a tor node, even though i wasn't an exit node. that alone was too much of a hassle so i stopped doing it. i also work from home now and vpn to work at a really big
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by vageli 7y ago
> Its the IT job to provide security without having to inconvenience the user. you can't just add extra layer of inconvenience for the sake of security. Your ultimate goal should be to provide security without adding additional inco
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by vageli 7y ago
> And they are right. Passwords are probably the wrong thing. Give the doctors a hardware token, a smartcard (and fit smartcard readers to everything doctors might expect to use) or use biometrics. > Might some doctors leave the smart
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by vageli 7y ago
The sources in that link seem to suggest that the benefits come from removal of CO2 and volatile organic compounds from the environment, versus attributing the benefits to oxygen generation.
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by vageli 7y ago
If the state wants to modify the rules after the fact, they typically have to provide consideration for that. This plays out all the time with imminent domain. Otherwise this is a plain and simple taking.
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by vageli 7y ago
I don't understand the prevention of adding to a playlist. Now I can't make a custom playlist of children's content for my kid?
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by vageli 7y ago
> I just think that parent knows very well how to opt out of being tracked on his own. How is maintaining a local block list opting out? It certainly doesn't seem to have legal force.
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by vageli 7y ago
> > systematic eradication of soul and character around each and every human residence? Why would you trade the vibrancy of your young urban block or the sense of trust and community in your suburb against prevention of low-impact bla
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by vageli 7y ago
> Imagine if it uses facial recognition to tell you when the guy is next entering the neighborhood. Dystopian, but it could work. And if it misidentifies the person?

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