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by ziddoap 2y ago
What agenda do you think the OP is following, and why do you think they'd do so now after their long (~3 decades!) history of running forums? There has been many other pieces of legislation in that time, why now? I tried to think of an
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> critiques mainly limited to the domain they have experience in i.e. the website. They are giving actionable advice on how to convert more sales. That's the whole point of Show HN, and helpful to the author. When a bunch of people
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> Which mathematically makes it far more likely for the insurer to incur enormous colon cancer treatment expenses, erasing their profiteering. Just find an excuse to deny those claims, too!
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Well, if a killing is ethically justified, it isn't murder. Are you saying this as an opinion, or is this an established thing? I thought murder was an "unlawful killing without justification or valid excuse" (paraphras
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I am not a lawyer, but I would assume that death due to omission of expected care fits pretty neatly under "negligent homicide".
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> absolutely were still using rotation policies That is not what I said. In fact, that's the complete opposite of what I said! Here, I'll add some emphasis for you. > "~90% or more of the companies we consult with do n
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I'm looking at a sample of well over a thousand companies across multiple years where the vast majority (~90%) do not have a forced rotation and now ~100% of them do not. You can safely extrapolate that out to a general statistic. Wher
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I don't think many citizen science projects credit the citizen contributors on the resulting paper(s), do they? The only few that I have contributed to did not, but I'm not super familiar with what the norm is. I think being a stu
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> maybe the "pretty much all" phrase was confusing and you did not think that left room for some to not? ~90% or more of the companies we consult with do not have forced arbitrary password rotations when we start our engagemen
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by ziddoap 2y ago
This is a really hostile comment. Sorry that your upset, but you don't need to take it out on me. > or was there another point to your comment? The purpose of my comment was to refute your claim that arbitrary password resets is th
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> _you_ can change them as often as _you_ fancy. This is all that matters, regardless of whether a password manager is used or not. Users should be able to change their own password (almost) whenever they want. But arbitrary forced pass
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> And yet it is still the recommended practice for every IT department for pretty much all corps Not any that I or my colleagues consult at.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Please stop saying "change your password regularly". Despite being a theoretical security increase, it has been shown repeatedly that it is a practical security decrease as it encourages both simpler passwords and incremental pa
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> The only privacy you're gaining is that from your ISP. This alone can be worth it for many people. I trust Mullvad significantly more than I trust my ISP.
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> Doesn't this make it kinda pointless? To do an audit you have to audit against some sort of pre-established criteria. That is how audits work. In security, that will typically be a standard (or set of standards) alongside a thr
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by ziddoap 2y ago
This is a nice audit report. The dedicated threat model section is something that a lot of auditing outfits skip over in their reports. While I'm positive Cure53, Assured, and Atredis (the previous auditors) established an appropriate
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Tablets/Phones/screen time disables cognitive abilities of kids and reduces them to dumb clicking machines. Sure, if you hand your kid a phone and walk away, that's a likely outcome. Phones/tablets/etc. are to
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by ziddoap 2y ago
The "Do Not Track" signal was more useful as an additional fingerprinting signal than it was at stopping tracking. Perhaps now we can get something more robust in the works.
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> email is not data that carries any real liability. It certainly can be when it is tied to other data. For example, your entire search history.
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"Data breaches don't have consequences" is a new take that I'm not sure how to respond to. It's not the email alone that is valuable. It is the email paired with your search history that is valuable. If you remove t
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Do people just open up Apple Music or Spotify and tell it "find stuff for me to play"? I know that's a thing it will do, but it never occurred to me that I'd actually want it to do that. I do this with Apple Music.
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That's totally fine! But that runs counter to the claim that "[...] data is a liability. We don't want it.". If they really didn't want it, there are options.
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I don't think Kagi, at the moment, is doing anything nefarious with the data that they have. But that paragraph you quoted is pure marketing. > You have to log in for Kagi and create an account because that’s the nature of a subscri
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From a customer perspective, it's completely fair to compare prices.
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I'm not quite sure I understand the distinction you're making. In construction terminology, at least, pretty much everything you can see or use is considered a "finishing material". All of the things that I pointed out,
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Yeah, it's the sports stadiums and not where the paying jobs are Who said that? > People don't give a single thought about sports stadiums or if you're near a highway/airport or any of that soft nonsense. You m
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> The larger issue is that most car companies in the US are reselling your data on newish vehicles (2016+) anyway. A fun read related to this: "Privacy Nightmare on Wheels: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla - Including Ford, Vol
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Sure, I agree. Gred's post however strongly implies that the only outcome worth considering is death. That might be true for them, but I'm not sure if that applies broadly. Speaking from experience, losing your house to a fire is
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The percent efficiency gain in labor when we moved from hammer & nail framing to nail gun framing significantly outpaced the percent wage increase framers experienced. But yes, absolutely, you are right that there are many variables a
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> Is living near a sports stadium really that desirable? For me? Absolutely not, haha. But I'm sure it is for others. I have no idea what the average American would say.

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