TwoBit

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by TwoBit 6y ago
As long as the backed up data can't be infected.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Postel's Law is bad - "be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send". It has a history of destroying technical standards. Remember how so much HTML was broken on conforming browsers ten years ago? That&#x27
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I knew an older woman who had a hard time remembering freeways by their numbers but could remember them all by their names (e.g. "Santa Ana" freeway instead of "5"). That seemed odd because to me the number was the name,
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Not sure what you mean by starting with "or". Both statements may well be true.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Dual hose units are increasingly hard to find. Hardly anybody makes them anymore. I've read in a couple places that they don't work great, despite that window units do.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Wirecutter reviewed the same models that you have?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
What do you believe is terrible?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Criminals are greet examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
The fact that Twitter had a system in which any of thousands of employees at all levels could single-handedly with no oversight alter any of the information in any account shows this was absolutely Twitter's fault.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
rare? I worked at Facebook and every employee needs one.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
It could with an appropriately secured private VPN.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Well that's just going to result in the next hacker going straight to public.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Being that Ted Williams was the greatest batter of all time, for most other hitters the numbers would probably all be lower.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I love my back yard, which I couldn't have living right in the city.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I worked in Menlo Park and commuted from Castro Valley. It was 40 minutes average each way, but I could afford a house and traffic wasn't nearly as bad by me as it was over there.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Are the databases being meowed lacking any passwords?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
It's still a PITA when my credit card has to be swapped.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I've read that there are now VPN providers that just use someone else's VPN engine. So they don't have to know wtf they are doing.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
It seems like a company's real challenge is preventing the escalation, more so than the initial compromise.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
I think you only want your data files from the backup, not system files. But yeah some kinds of "data" files can be compromised too.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
That would explain why a lot of new Chinese clone products start out the gate with 5-10 obviously fake five star reviews.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Georgia Tech vs a City College?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Sometimes the death takes a long time, but there can be a cliff event that accelerates it. That event might well be the adoption of ARM64 Windows.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
And get to 3nm before Intel gets to 5nm.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
It wouldn't even necessarily tell you who was social-engineered. My understanding of this case was that CS tool credentials were posted globally in their Slack.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
There's a difference though. The money you lost can be returned in the case of theft, which happens a lot. But Twitter cannot undo what happened here. Also I don't think thousands of call center people typically have sole ability
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by TwoBit 6y ago
What would they have suggested that executives might not listen to?
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Looks like their backups were mishandled. Any listing of best practices for backups includes their being stored offline.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Yeah but 99% of thieves can't do that. If they could then they'd likely have a real job. Lots of locks are invulnerable to the picking, especially serious digital ones.
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by TwoBit 6y ago
Companies - especially market leaders - are averse to creating products that compete against themselves.

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