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by bxr 15y ago
> the attention paid to LulzSec — a litter of script kiddies with kindergarten knowledge of the basest forms of technological harassment since 90s AOL proggies — is disgusting. And pathetic. And dangerous. Many of the things I've read
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by bxr 15y ago
>I worry that rapidly improving the web's ability to deploy applications will make it less suitable for reading and writing. Will make it? It already has. The web as we know it is a fucking unfettered mess. We've just been jamming ap
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by bxr 15y ago
>But, they're still a startup So what? Aww... the cute widdle startup gets the bar lowered for them because we love startups here on HN?
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by bxr 15y ago
No, we have people like you to thank. Standing on the sidelines bitching about the bad things that will happen in reaction to lulzsec instead of even attempting to prevent the gov't from doing them.
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by bxr 15y ago
Way to suck the fun out of it :) -- I know, I just think a bitcoin exchange is an interesting concept, the kind of thing I would enjoy knowing my code was running in and got a little caught up bikeshedding in my mind how I'd secure a targe
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by bxr 15y ago
Who wants to start an exchange? I'd be down for that, it sounds like a fun project in an interesting domain and I was actually thinking about what building one would entail as I've been reading though the comments here.
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by bxr 15y ago
Yes, there is. I can't trust a service that makes these kinds of mistakes.
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by bxr 15y ago
That doesn't help anything other than dropbox's efforts to obtain new customers because they would be ill informed about the track record of the service.
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by bxr 15y ago
>There is no way dropbox would be able to explain to them what happened without scaring them silly. Opposed to who? People who do know what it means and should be scared silly but aren't because they've been beaten into submission by
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by bxr 15y ago
Indeed security is never prefect, however "its hard at it and we all suck at it" does not mean that everyone sucks at it equally.
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by bxr 15y ago
>How do you know? Pubkey auth connecting to openssh on freebsd to hippa- pci- sox- and sas 70- compliant storage with a warrant canary and you can give them a call to talk to the engineers (I have). Looking back dropbox feels like a fl
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by bxr 15y ago
They do now . Here is a forum post where they admit that mobile SSL was impossible. http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=10669
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by bxr 15y ago
I know. I didn't bring that up to accuse them of malice as far the DMCA part, I brought that up as an example that dropbox employees don't understand what their own internal tools do .
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by bxr 15y ago
I didn't say it was a good visualization, just that its not hard to understand what they're trying to convey.
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by bxr 15y ago
Last time the Dropbox security thing was in the news, regardless of your personal preference on what encryption keys dropbox should have been using, the issue and more importantly the way they handled it made me question their abilities. T
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by bxr 15y ago
At a glance it was easy for me, without even seeing the labels, to understand X was hops, Y was RTT and Z was the attempt number.
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by bxr 15y ago
While I like many of Facebook’s PR team on an individual basis, as a whole, they are probably the worst in the industry when it comes to manipulation, double-speak, and all around slimeballishness Their PR team are a prefect example, in Z
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by bxr 15y ago
jedberg - Its sad to see you go, I remember when you came on at reddit. Whats next for you?
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by bxr 15y ago
You'd still have to pay for all the computing time to remain available during the attack. Its probably not worth it to try to stay up in that kind of storm.
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by bxr 15y ago
>You probably didn't read what came before this sentence I did. I guess what I'm saying is: why does it matter to you if google's search algorithms aren't perfect and could operate better with a bit of metadata from the site? After al
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by bxr 15y ago
But, only one of them is the foundation of our society.
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by bxr 15y ago
Why should I care? You shouldn't. Nobody is forcing you to try and appear better in google's results.
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by bxr 15y ago
Unless this open letter gets a very significant amount of media coverage, facebook isn't going to do jack to help any of their users out when the user's government doesn't doesn't want facebook to. Facebook has become big enough that they'
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by bxr 15y ago
Everyone I know who was able to turn their passion into a profession have found themselves with diminished drive to work on their pet projects in that field. If someone is satisfied with their work, it gives them time for other hobbies. I
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by bxr 15y ago
Its an interesting comparison, but I think at least part of the difference lies in the fact many of google's main services -- search, maps, shopping, news -- are about getting you what you want and away from google. The faster you're done
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by bxr 15y ago
A slowly increasing number of my friends are cutting down their use, and eventually leaving. I know what they say about the plural of antidote, but I've personally noticed the same. I use it less, and when I do use it, I notice the peopl
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by bxr 15y ago
You know what I see? A couple of college kids who want to start seriously kicking around the idea of building something outside of their domain. I don't put words in their mouths or thoughts in these Engineering majors head's. And heres wh
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by bxr 15y ago
>I suspect we're in a situation where cost of being competent > probability of lulz * cost of remediation. Yup, unfortunately this is true, and half-assing it because of this is what gets us onerous new internet legislation.
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by bxr 15y ago
>It takes two seconds to decide upon which special-function key to press. Deciding among abstract symbols is a high-level cognitive function. Not only is this decision not boring, the user actually experiences amnesia! Real amnesia! The
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by bxr 15y ago
>If LulzSec looks at you, you get to spend millions beefing up security ...or, you know, be competent in the first place.

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