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by smsm42 3d ago
I am simply astonished by the leeway AI companies are given. If a company built a tool to hack their competitors and used it, there would be grave consequences. In fact, if a company built a tool that led to committing multiple felonies aga
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by smsm42 12d ago
That's insanely obtuse and bureaucratic response and has likely been designed as such. I mean, to claim that because _some_ domains can get unregistered, abruptly removing a whole class of domains "does not impact the life cycle o
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by smsm42 15d ago
> It can be traced to exactly one executive who knew the dangers. Who? TEL was in use for 60+ years. You are seriously claiming that one single person had absolute dictatorial powers over whole industry - nay, whole industries in 186 cou
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by smsm42 15d ago
> The "customers" they are courting are security/privacy zealots who constantly want them "just work on the browser" but never seem to have an answer on how to pay for that. We all know how that was paid for. Goo
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by smsm42 24d ago
Putting lead in gasoline is not some evil CEO's decision. That was widely accepted industry practice and completely approved by The Science (TM) at the time. If you want to blame a single person, it'd be Thomas Midgley Jr. (incred
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by smsm42 24d ago
Mangione had a personal grudge, caused by illness, pain and personal interactions with US healthcare system, which can grind down and drive to insanity anybody. The above just reads as a mashup or angry reddit posts which contain generic &q
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by smsm42 25d ago
Thousands of people were jailed in 2008 aftermath - look up operation Malicious Mortgage and Stolen Dreams. Most of them of course low level - because those were the people actually perpetrating the fraud. But some examples: Kareem Serageld
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by smsm42 25d ago
You can jail CEO just fine if you prove they personally committed the crime beyond reasonable doubt. Proving that is hard, of course. Sometimes impossible because the CEO delegates a lot of what the corporation does. This is common for any
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by smsm42 25d ago
This all is based on false premise - corporation being a "legal person" does not mean they have same rights as people. You can liquidate a corporation and if is not murder. You can boycott a corporation and it's not illegal d
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by smsm42 25d ago
I think if facebook code governs your life, the major part of the fault does not lie with facebook. It is possible to live not being chained to the feed 24x7.
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by smsm42 1mo ago
So, instead of SSN dumps on the darknet, we'd have national ID dumps, which will be stolen within months (either from the government itself, or from credit bureaus or data brokers). How did that improve anything exactly?
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by smsm42 1mo ago
How the identity number would help? It's not like terrorists tell each other their identity numbers. So if the LEOs learn about a terrorist guy that goes around under the name "Sean Byrne", how would they know which ID number
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by smsm42 1mo ago
Why not? Nobody forces anybody to hire an anonymous provider. If they still do, they are probably fine with it?
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by smsm42 2mo ago
> Everything you know about 6800 assembly will not make your note-taking app any better. It could. It could make a simple note-taking app not take gigabytes of memory and take visible delay on each click. Most people don't bother of
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by smsm42 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Welcome to the future. Make no mistakes.
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Yes. And since LLMs can not improve knowledge - I mean, they can generate new arrangements of information, but they have no idea whether any of it real or making sense, unless humans - explicitly or through training - tell them, the more we
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by smsm42 3mo ago
They were the part of the organized criminal group that executed the shooting and later tried to help other criminals to avoid responsibility. If you are part of the group that does the crime, everybody in the group shares the responsibilit
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by smsm42 3mo ago
One might consider a lot of things. But if you are at shooting war with United States government, then when United States government puts your away, you don't get to claim it's a free speech issue. You can't sit on those two
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Domestic terrorists who shoot people in the neck. Among millions of things that the government claims to protect mw from, this is one of a few things that I don't doubt I want to be protected from. There's absolutely zero free spe
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Not to worry, eventually somebody will file a class action lawsuit, and after mere 12 years of litigation everybody affected will get $2.17 in store credits (in another 5 years).
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Many projects have CI setups that run code (Makefile can run any code, for example). Which means, an untrusted third-party contribution would allow that party to run arbitrary code on CI platform. Yes, the solution is to not let untrusted t
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Security-wise, there's no such thing as constrained PHP execution, at least with the standard PHP engine. The surface is too wide. You still have OS constraints of the user and capabilities and such, but beyond that if you can run PHP
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Yes and no. Yes, theoretically you can initiate ACH transfer with just the account number. But practically, you will need to have a bank that would allow you to do that and agree to be on the hook if the transfer is going to be reversed. Wh
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Your SSN had been already stolen in the Equifax breach - unless you're so young or recently arrived that you haven't had SSN by then, in which case it had been stolen in one of a dozens of the breaches since then. And if somehow y
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by smsm42 3mo ago
PHP one is at best a moderate-level bug in SOAP client which I don't see any realistic way to exploit (the whole convoluted setup in the POC assumes PHP execution access, which begs the question why bother if you already can execute ar
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by smsm42 3mo ago
PHP one appears to be a convoluted way of executing arbitrary code on a local server conditioned on the ability of already executing arbitrary PHP code. In other words, not a security issue at all. The cookie parsing issue might be a bug
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by smsm42 3mo ago
I didn't discuss morality. I discuss the fact that if somebody signs a contract, draws a salary and other benefits under that contract, then sign another agreement while leaving, get the cash and benefits under that agreement, and then
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by smsm42 3mo ago
Didn't Wynn-Williams sign an NDA before leaving? What's bizzarre in Facebook trying to hold her to what she voluntarily signed?
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by smsm42 3mo ago
"We all know people are overpaid for doing nothing, but if we don't talk about it somehow it would continue forever"? Doesn't sound like a smart strategy to be honest. The truth will come out.

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