talon88

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by talon88 11y ago
"Perhaps financial renumeration, while fair, isn't entirely necessary" Is it that in your world, eating and paying the rent isn't necessary either? 'Many' creative people sounds like some programmers, which is
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Dropbox Is Probably Not Stealing Your Files(one.darrenpmeyer.com)
140 points by talon88 12y ago|99 comments
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by talon88 12y ago
This is not common in the gaming industry, nor is it professional, nor would it likely be legal in the United States. Given that they're in Germany, though, I'm less sure of the laws there, so I can't speak to that. Honestly,
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by talon88 12y ago
Shouldn't we also care about who the copyright trolls are? I'm all for accountability from the provider side, but why not dig deeper into those that are issuing notices in bad faith, or that are being countered most often?
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by talon88 12y ago
In your first line, you say to drop Dropbox due to lack of client side encryption, and in your second line you mention that you can just roll your own while still using Dropbox...?
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by talon88 12y ago
Yes? I'm pretty okay with this. I'm okay with police going undercover, too, to bust up gangs. It turns out that policework is more than just standing in a pretty uniform.
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by talon88 13y ago
It's written at least slightly tongue-in-cheek...
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by talon88 13y ago
No Tumblr on this chart?
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by talon88 13y ago
You call the cops/ambulance. This one experience, even if 100% true, is not necessarily indicative of the entire system.
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by talon88 13y ago
I have had just about nothing but pleasant experiences with the cops. I was an EMT for three years, and the cops that I worked with on a daily basis were the ones that got me — and others, including druggies that ODed, domestic violence vic
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Dropbox updates transparency report, publishes data request principles(blog.dropbox.com)
30 points by talon88 13y ago|7 comments
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by talon88 13y ago
I think I was misunderstood — he's very genuine, and has always been. The copycats, though, are more unlikely to be.
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by talon88 13y ago
No, no — I think Bill Gates is absolutely genuine. I think those who may follow in his footsteps will be less so.
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by talon88 13y ago
I think this is really cool, though the cynical part of me thinks that so will the social media strategists of quite a few celebrities out there, looking to promote things around Christmas...
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by talon88 13y ago
Try reading the FAQ before your vomit more words onto the screen.
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by talon88 13y ago
Can you lay out the charges, special prosecutor?
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by talon88 13y ago
Oh my God, a new Ted Chiang story. I have to say, having read everything he's written, I'm curious what a full novel would look like, though I'd be happily content if he just came out with a short story/novellete/no
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by talon88 13y ago
It just feels so juvenile — first he doesn't comply, then he says he'll comply, then he refuses to comply, then he's ordered to show cause and represents himself (!), then he prints out the encryption key in 4-point font in a
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by talon88 13y ago
eat24, if I recall correctly.
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by talon88 13y ago
I find the drip-feed of information a really interesting choice, though I'm curious of its efficacy versus the wikileaks style dump. It keeps the news alive for a longer period of time, sure, but it also means fewer eyes are looking ov
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by talon88 13y ago
Sarcasm.
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by talon88 14y ago
I'm not sure it's really 'journalism', per se, as it is flowery language complaining about something with vague metaphors.
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by talon88 14y ago
Not speaking for the security team, how likely would it be that this was an attack using reused passwords from another website? How likely, specifically, is it that someone got into one or multiple employee accounts, found the admin console
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by talon88 14y ago
Breach is generally detected in one of two ways - information is sold and that leads to scrutiny when users write in, and/or you have auditing mechanisms (ip geolocation, for example) which points out behavior that does not seem to be corre
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by talon88 14y ago
I'm be quite willing to bet that the attack vector was a compromised password that was reused to access their admin panel.