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Guerrillamail.com is about to lose their .org domain registered since 2006(twitter.com)
11 points by flashmob 5y ago|1 comments
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by flashmob 6y ago
> The security model of Bitcoin comes from proof of work This is not the security model, this is the consensus model. It's based on probabilistic finality, meaning that the probability that a transaction won't be reversed incre
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by flashmob 6y ago
It wasn't shutdown for spam, and the service is not a spam service but an ant-spam service. The service has been sending out emails since about 2013. It only lets out a limited number of emails, and there's an anti abuse policy in
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by flashmob 6y ago
LE does in fact follow the link and use the contacts there 99.999% of the time. The site has been running fine on OVH for nearly 5 years without problem.
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by flashmob 6y ago
Yes, I was under the impression that this is what they meant. It would have been great to be able to to chat so that I could learn more about how much this would cost, but as outlined above, they decided to end the conversation. You're
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by flashmob 6y ago
of course - create any website open to the public where they can message each other, and there will always be some abuse. It's unavoidable. But what can you do? You can't police the messages for every potential form of abuse. (I&#
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by flashmob 6y ago
Admin of Guerrilla Mail here. I've been hosting the site on OVH since 2016. The site hasn't changed much during this time, and I've been quite happy with their services until now. A little bit about Guerrilla Mail: It its&#x2
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by flashmob 6y ago
Nowhere on the website it says that it's an anonymous email service provider - it was an anti-spam email solution first and foremost. In fact, the email sending feature prominently warned the user that their IP address would be include
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by flashmob 8y ago
I'm also one of those who switched from PHP to Go and now I have quite a bit of legacy PHP code that just works and don't have time to rewrite. My solution: Use a Go FastCGI client library to call PHP by talking directly to php-fp
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by flashmob 8y ago
Yep. Also, he had to be careful not to say anything that would suggest that having a monopoly in the OS market would somehow benefit the dominance of the content busniess, it seems like the interviews were trying him on that. I think the an
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by flashmob 8y ago
Perhaps it the type of bug that only happens 497 days[1]? a few of these class of bugs slip through now and then (intiger overflow). 1. https://blog.ctm-it.com/it-support/blogs/matt-cannon/2013/49...
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by flashmob 8y ago
Let's start that you've been visiting a website called "Hacker News". Explain that to the customs goons when they ask you what is it.
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by flashmob 8y ago
They did! Although not on the scale as the grand canal, but still impressive. Check out the "snowy mountains scheme", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_Mountains_Scheme Quote: "The water of the Snowy
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by flashmob 8y ago
> They register again and again after the trial has expired This is great! You have users who are using your product, how could you not be happy? Find out why they are not converting, perhaps your offer isn't that great for their de
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by flashmob 8y ago
Counterpoint: Software engineers can just make it a configuration option and leave it to the user to decide how it is run. Unlike civil engineers who can't build a bridge with a configuration option for a 'light & unsafe'
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by flashmob 8y ago
Yep, it's a totally different culture. For example, there's a lot of motivation to protect the family's honor. The police will mediate between the parties before going further, and often reach justice outside the court, where
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by flashmob 8y ago
Well, there isn't such thing as 100B in cryptocurrency, so definitely not in crypto. (It would be very hard/impossible to acquire that amount right now). This brings us to an interesting thought. Cryptocurrency transaction values
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by flashmob 8y ago
Oops, I see, was assuming it was used for MTA too! So there was never really a dedicated TLS port for MTA to begin with?
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by flashmob 8y ago
Yes, unfortunately you'd be losing email. Port 465 has been deprecated a while back (1997). I guess that's the problem - there is no practical way to disable plaintext email from the start. You may always need to accept the connec
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by flashmob 8y ago
Yes - it's a weak argument, and one that's probably been debunked by looking the way https lifted off recently. My view is if port 465 was still around today, it would probably get the same level of attention as port 443 has. We c
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by flashmob 8y ago
The STARTTLS vulnerability to downgrade attacks is a significant downside that port 465 doesn't have (if using modern TLS protocols at least). My opinion is that perhaps the severity of the STARTTLS downgrade attack wasn't that mu
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by flashmob 8y ago
Perhaps fixing STARTTLS is one of those problems where the solution adds even more problems (and moving parts). BTW, what ever happened to SMTP on a dedicated TLS port (465)? Why did it get deprecated?
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by flashmob 8y ago
Hi! I run a "copycat" site that perhaps you may be referring to in that post, GuerrillaMail.com (well, actually, I didn't copy it myself, but acquired it from another guy many years back) and also been using Redis to store al
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by flashmob 8y ago
Casios are great. Which model do you have? Btw, I can't believe that in this age, people need the recharge their watch once a day. It's like we went backwards. How often did you replace your battery?
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by flashmob 8y ago
It read like a standard run-of-the-mill press release you would expect from a big corporation. Btw, the word-stem 'develop*' appeared 31 times. Reminded me of the old famous chant... "Developers, developers, developers!"
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by flashmob 8y ago
If you wait long enough, say, for 144 confirmations (or 24 hours, whichever is greater) then a double spend may as well be the least of your worries, for bitcoin, or any of the top mined crypto-currencies. These double-spend attacks are onl
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by flashmob 8y ago
Noticed this also, no need to monitor and adjust the speed which is a mundane task (in cruise control traffic conditions). Eyes can be on the road instead. This is similar to the problem for pilots, who can be distracted by mundane tasks du
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by flashmob 8y ago
These coin/porfolio trackers are a privacy nightmare. You're basically telling some stranger your detailed crypto finances, and it's unknown how your data may be used. One of the golden rules in crypto is to never disclose yo
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by flashmob 8y ago
These are the allegations. The prosecutor's motive is to throw up all possible allegations without necessarily being proven, accurate or true. It is up to the courts to decide whenever guilty or not. I wouldn't use that document a
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by flashmob 8y ago
This is the fault of the bitcoin project, not coinbase. Bitcoin transactions should just work without the end user not having to worry about what's under the hood. Why the bitcoin client cannot just use segwit / schnorr automatica

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