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BillPin buys BillMonk, the US service that inspired it
(thenextweb.com)
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laurenceputra
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Misinformation on crowdfunding projects
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laurenceputra
14y ago
GIL? I've found that a single thread is slower than not running a thread at all.
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laurenceputra
14y ago
4chan with facebook login?
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laurenceputra
14y ago
yea, you are now aware of the mass assignment bugs, but what about previously? even github got affected by it. are you saying that they are incompetent? what about bugs that have yet to be revealed? what i am saying is that there may be som
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And again, I am not doubting your competence. What I am saying is that we are all humans. Google might have hired the best computer scientists around the world but they still got hacked. It might even be a problem with the programming langu
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14y ago
i'm not assuming you are incompetent. what i'm saying is that no system is fully secure, and by saving the users' passwords, you are risking them. one of the first rules i learnt in web development is this, you do not store passwords. ( htt
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14y ago
so you do concede that it can get ugly really fast.
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14y ago
and by storing the passwords, they are putting their users at risk. and we are in an era where email security means more than anything. it means access to all your services. they should go think about how they can design a service securely
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14y ago
how does it not apply?
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14y ago
what they could have done is to allow users to autoforward their emails over to their servers or something. not impossible, but i'm not their employee and i'm not responsible for thinking up business strategies for them. so yea. not necessa
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laurenceputra
14y ago
in fact, seeing how your account was created to post that comment and seeing how it doesn't make sense, i would suspect that you actually work for them.
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14y ago
they can't, unless the email service gives them oauth. and even then allowing a 3rd party to backup your emails is a very dangerous thing to do. they say that credit card is more dangerous, i say no. for credit cards you can claim fraud. wh
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14y ago
I'm the author. 1) The app downloads your emails into their server. 2) Yes, they store that actual password. Which is ridiculous. 3) Yes, good for them for that, but still there are others where they store passwords. And that is not accepta
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Dropmyemail's security
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UnsocialReader
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Videos from GeekcampSG, a all geek conference in Singapore
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15y ago
thanks, we have started to enforce it alr :)
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I Wasn't Paid
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Ron Paul – Predictions in Due Time
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Making a difference, from the ground up.
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Computer Science Noobs
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Gamification in education. Does it solve anything real?
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You’re an entrepreneur. Really? (Part 2)
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You’re an entrepreneur. Really?
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Where is our humanity?
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Tech Gadgets Vending Machine
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It’s not about being a hero. It’s about being something more.
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Abstractions… Enough is enough…
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Awesome 404 page
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