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by vonklaus 10y ago
Some links, from HN. None were particuarly helpful. But if anyone finds this later in the same situation, I will try and make it a bit easier for them as this sucks. 1. What to do about ID theft (2 comments / 2009) 2. MS Phone scam(1
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by vonklaus 10y ago
thanks. i am capable, but i don't want to "untangle" it. I would always treat that system as maliscious. I just want to know if i should confirm it was maliscious. I could, in fact, run some program diagnostics. The impedim
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by vonklaus 10y ago
hahah thanks. It's funny, i look at it the same way. I am fairly technical. I feel confident I could fix the issue technically(install new reformatted HD & RAM, security programs, ect) but I am more concerned with: * Was this the
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by vonklaus 10y ago
good idea. is lifelock worth getting? also, the random 888 number likeky is disconnected, their website is just nginx which i think dynamically creates temp sites for whoever they are scamming ect, and then disappears, the payment was made
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I have 2 clean compatible ddr3 ram caches and a new HD which I originally installed post breach (what I would do if my system) but I swapped back to orig hardware short term as she couldn't figure out new OS. Do you think it is likely
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by vonklaus 10y ago
thanks. This was my concern. I have mitigated short term risk (next 2 weeks ish) so I am just trying to assess whether it is worth freaking her out and dumping the whole system. i already did but as an 80 y/o she didn't adjsut sup
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by vonklaus 10y ago
yes. She is not my grandma, very close family friend. Her son is my fathers very good friend. I edited above, but there is a folder called [ his name ] which was on desktop. she can't recall if it is usually there but had full credit r
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I could never, myself, be comfortable not doing that as someone who was at best a total scammer and at worst a hacker/affiliated with hackers and carders, had full system and admin access for several hours. However, i did what I could
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I cancelled all cards and did what i could for the finance company. putting a freeze or security on her investment account required her to have to go to a bank(or other official notary accepted by the firm) and verify her identity and then
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Ask HN: Grandma's computer compromised by scammer, how to assess risk?
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I am registering the site as down, and isitdown also can't resolve[0] host. Anyone else having trouble reaching the site? [0] http://imgur.com/CpJVWrR
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by vonklaus 10y ago
i agree, you make some compelling points. i would be interested to know more about how big a market the adv/data piece is and how yoh use it. i was wrong when i said they don't have a clear moneyization strategy. I should restate
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by vonklaus 10y ago
interesting. going to dig up the advert. maybe they have a long play here. thanks.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
idk what about my comment seems disingenuous, i was actually really interested in this in case i missed some huge cool trend. i am interested in products and technology for their own sake. i would love to help the world pisitively, but i am
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by vonklaus 10y ago
look i have crazy theories which I think are sane and correct(they are) so I am willing to give this a shot. Can you please walk me through the next 5 years of how you see this progressing. As I said a lot, I am not a user but I don't
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I outlined my thoughts, a large social network would have to do it. linkedin, google, twitter, microsoft or facebook. LinkedIn, twitter, facebook being the most profitable. Maybe apple, for the security, weird FBI hacking thing although the
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by vonklaus 10y ago
look, I am all for giving snapchat the benefit of the doubt (or I did a long time ago) it was actully the classic zuckerberg boardroom story peter theil tells all the time, except zuckerberg was yahoo to snapchat(i think yahoo was the aquir
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by vonklaus 10y ago
this is super important research the institute for social media has conducted. the biggest threats humanity has ever faced are 140 charachters.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I think the most important thing we can do is continue to try and bring people together by grouping them based on a single feature and then ascribing traits to them, then arguing about it on the internet. We need to keep telling our childre
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by vonklaus 10y ago
can you explain the math? I honestly don't have a working knoweldge of the inputs, but let's say i wanted the equivalent of ec2? How would I go about setting it up and the costs? If I wanted to serve a few million english speaking
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by vonklaus 10y ago
do you have a link? this fits with my hypothesis, and would be interested to read it.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
correct. I agree with you as well as parent to some degree. However, chiefly, it shoud be noted that Business Owners and Gun Owners operate in the free market and presumably use the internet . Wherease everyone who is operating within a
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I think this is great. However, if you are Austin and you're idea was to strong arm Lyft & Uber into allowing background checks to make ride sharing "safer", one would imagine spawning a comleteley unregulated black marke
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by vonklaus 10y ago
i didn't know what cryengine was. I mean, you probably don't need to tell people what it is, but the github repo, documentation introduction, homepage, and first page of the getting started material don't have the words: &q
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by vonklaus 10y ago
> But "optimization" isn't just some magic pixie dust that you sprinkle on to a project and it makes things faster. Correct, however periodically adding features by committee and backwardly processing and parsing tags and
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Because people won't trust google soon (google != alphabet). When adblockers are fully implemented and used by the entire population, google will look like societ russia after the collapse of the CCCP. It is going to start moving into
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by vonklaus 10y ago
you aren't wrong. It was an off the cuff email I sent at 3am, it was purely a rediculous top down analysis comletely devoid of research, simply to ilustrate a point. The point is, if you were able to get a million people to use your se
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I respect that. The site just has "acquired by IBM watson team" so I don't know. However, it is possible you were too early. Also, it is impertive that the expereince is built inside a browser. Not 100% sure whate happened to
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by vonklaus 10y ago
You have to understand that google is solving a much harder problem, but as a user, a personal solution is much easier to develop for and has higher leverage. If you gave me the ability to curate resources and browse sites I was interested
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Here is an unsolicited email I sent last night. I sent it to spinn3r, but any company doing "competitive intelligience", market research, big data, ect can be subbed in here for their name, because the browser and search engine wa

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