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by hackuser 10y ago
> With offline software you have no such exposure Generally I agree that it's a higher cost and therefore less valuable target, but there are ways to mass deploy some exploits. For example, you could use a browser exploit to obtain
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Turbo Tax and H&R Block aren't being hacked What is that based on? > It's really, really hard to attack Intuit. It's much easier to submit fraudulent tax forms and pocket the returns before anyone notices What mak
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by hackuser 10y ago
> As a counterpoint, zero defect policies could be be harmful. If everyone must take a test and score 100% or otherwise end their career, shenanigans happen. It's not a counterpoint, it's a consideration when designing the syst
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by hackuser 10y ago
A tangential issue: It seems almost impossible to me that the systems of tax preparation services, whether cloud-based, local software, or offline, are secure. The standard of security is, make the target more expensive to breach than it&#x
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by hackuser 10y ago
> excludes almost half of the US population It does not. They are free and encouraged to join in (AFAIK). Those who embrace racial and religious discrimination, of course, might not choose the join, as the message contradicts their belie
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by hackuser 10y ago
> "Ideally, there won't be any new highway capacity built because we can't afford to maintain what we have" It's not a detail that changes the conclusion, but I want to focus on it: The U.S. definitely can afford
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by hackuser 10y ago
(withdrawn)
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by hackuser 10y ago
It depends on how "terrorist state" is defined, but North Korea might count. A state is different; they have something to protect and are subject to deterrence through threatened retaliation. Groups like al-Qaeda are more dangerou
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by hackuser 10y ago
I'm not sure it's a matter of view; it's a matter of fact. Consumers do not have the ability (much less the time!) to understand everything. They can't reliable figure out which bank is stable, which drug will kill them
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by hackuser 10y ago
This is the fourth among the U.S. nuclear weapons institutions that I've read is in trouble, going back several years: 1) Air Force ICBM launch operations: The General in charge had a serious drinking problem (consider that for a momen
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by hackuser 10y ago
The marketplace won't sort out the security issues, any more than it sorted out unstable banks. Consumers lack the ability to obtain information, understand the issues, and make good decisions. Computer systems should be regulated for
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by hackuser 10y ago
Some things are too dangerous to distribute to consumers, no matter how they are labeled. Rather than repeat another discussion, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13847136 IMHO Marijuana isn't a relevant e
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by hackuser 10y ago
I'm sorry to hear about the people in your life that passed away. I understand the claims, but without evidence they are only a couple claims among very many. Evidence is what separates science from all the other theories of the world.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Interesting predictions, but I'd like to see research providing a basis for them before I take risks with people's health and lives. I agree that the current approach works very poorly; that doesn't mean any other approach is
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by hackuser 10y ago
> When weed was legalized That is far less dangerous than opiates; I don't think it's comparable.
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by hackuser 10y ago
That's great. "combines automatic image processing, anonymous web workers, and members of the user's social network in order to collect fast and accurate answers to their questions."
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by hackuser 10y ago
When I see stories like this one, read here how good the accessibility is in iPhones, and read about how good their security is for end users, I don't understand why it's trendy to tear down Apple and Tim Cook. What a great citize
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by hackuser 10y ago
I don't know about that case, but if you falsely shout "fire" in a crowded, dark theater, I'm pretty sure you will be breaking the law. It probably would be breaking the law if you did it in a well-lit conference hall. (
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by hackuser 10y ago
> Between 2008 and now, the Republican party was taken over by its most extreme members I don't know if I agree. Whatever the platform says, the GOP have been active climate change denialists for decades (unless my memory is way off
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by hackuser 10y ago
> they are protected in your possession. If you turn over all your papers to a third-party, though, that changes things I believe that interpretation is standard for U.S. courts. However, it's not in the wording itself. (Courts of c
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by hackuser 10y ago
> safeguards like attorney-client, priest-penitent, and spousal privilege Let's add the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, protecting your "papers, and effects" though it's not currently respected. It seems ob
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by hackuser 10y ago
> in general journalists still go for the easier "stories" that can be portrayed as competing sides, or simple narratives in general rather than what would actually inform people about the world. Journalists, AFAIK, are suppose
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by hackuser 10y ago
There must be a solution for corporate IT that doesn't involve endless settings. Does the Enterprise edition (or whatever it's called now) exclude these features?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Can people who have read the article address specific facts the author brings up, or specific errors in the analysis? Maybe we can have a serious discussion right here. I read the article and it looks straightforward to me, but I don't
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by hackuser 10y ago
Agreed. A main purpose of propaganda is not to persuade people, but to create enough noise that intelligent discussion is impossible. That seems to be working, to some degree, on HN.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> wholesale violation of 4th Amendment protections Where is there a violation of the 4th Amendment? The 4th Amendment is not about capabilities, which always have existed in one form or another (e.g., reading people's mail), but abo
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by hackuser 10y ago
The point of the article is that there are no exploits and those apps aren't mentioned by the leaked data. The leaked data merely says that if you gain full access to someone's phone then you can see what the user sees, which woul
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by hackuser 10y ago
> after years of the media allowing false equivalence to obscure the overwhelming scientific consensus around it Grouping all "media" together isn't meaningful; it's like saying "all programmers are lazy". I
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by hackuser 10y ago
Why not switch to a .nyt TLD? Or .times?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Lots of business is done in places where weather not up to Bay Area standards, such as New York, London, Tokyo, Beijing, etc.

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