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541.
by vntok 5y ago
Some groups will actually tell you how they got in and help you patch your systems. Some groups will hack you AND also uninstall viruses emanating from other groups, or they will hack you and patch other flaws so that other malwares cannot
542.
by vntok 5y ago
Indeed it is not. Unless of course you find a way to map the timing and size of a pageload to its potentially sensitive content, in which case do tell.
543.
by vntok 5y ago
That would be 2% each year for ten years of infringement though, and very expensive lawyers to pay for at least that duration.
544.
by vntok 5y ago
Others would call that being transparent and reachable.
545.
by vntok 5y ago
See also: http://littlebigdetails.com
546.
by vntok 5y ago
The article asks a question and answers it in a very clear and clean way in its first 11 sentences. Not sure what you are complaining about here or why you would invoke "mods" in any way.
547.
by vntok 5y ago
Yeah, I certainly don't want those crawlers anywhere near my servers. Block by default and allow site admins to unblock should they want to seems like the best way. It is also already how it works with Cloudflare.
548.
by vntok 5y ago
> If the attackers are acting under the protection or tacit approval of a foreign government then you can bet that somewhere, someone is prepping a policy paper for kenetic responses. You could but you probably would lose that bet. This
549.
by vntok 5y ago
Correct. This was amazingly handled, in my opinion. No one loses face in this story, yet the company has successfully managed to eject -in a very short time and a controlled way- the people it considers the worst. And the company has advert
550.
by vntok 6y ago
Try any Samsung Sx product. You won't even have to replace their battery after only 4 years.
551.
by vntok 6y ago
The article is very confusing on this front. > People said they were 14.2% more likely to buy this chocolate bar when they were shown the version with a cost breakdown Surely that cannot be correct. Possibly 14.2% of the people who were
552.
by vntok 6y ago
That does not bode well for the rest of the methodology...
553.
by vntok 6y ago
Why would they owe anything to the Register?
554.
by vntok 6y ago
Well, is it? The linked post is obviously biased, so I'd rather wait for more information instead of getting my pitchfork out immediately.
555.
by vntok 6y ago
Nah. They aren't experimenting on people, they are experimenting on organizational processes. A very different thing.
556.
by vntok 6y ago
Why is that objectionable, do actual bad actors typically stop trying after being told to do so?
557.
by vntok 6y ago
Checking the page source, this website almost seems like a quine? The whole HTML is embedded inside a hidden form field.
558.
by vntok 6y ago
Sure...
559.
by vntok 6y ago
Yes. Bitcoin is actually the most efficient driver of greener energy production and transmission. It aligns the interest state actors have in developing such a costly infrastructure (aiming at recouping costs strategically, politically, soc
560.
by vntok 6y ago
This is not the place to attack people. Please don't.
561.
by vntok 6y ago
Any century now.
562.
by vntok 6y ago
That. Then, add all the energy consumed by the 24/7 monitoring and safeguarding of every single one of those facilities, and for good measure add to each cost line the energy cost of the whole chain of processes that selects, sets up a
563.
by vntok 6y ago
What a curious opinion. Care to elaborate?
564.
by vntok 6y ago
Here is a link to a very high level layman explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler
565.
by vntok 6y ago
> hellbannedguy: something dumb 17 years ago Probably.
566.
by vntok 6y ago
So if you only ban half of illegitimate accounts once a week, does this mean I just need to launch my mining code registration scripts also once a week, ideally just after I see some of my accounts have been banned? And doing this will get
567.
by vntok 6y ago
This was not dumb, most probably this was marketing. They chose to burn -very publicly- the two accounts they had access to in order to showcase that they have an in that they can use somewhere else.
568.
by vntok 6y ago
Not really because the Dollar bills battery keeps discharging at the inflation rate.
569.
by vntok 6y ago
You should fix it then, takes no time at all.
570.
by vntok 6y ago
Nonsense. Solidity is a statically-typed programming language.

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