c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Facebook Has No First Amendment Right to Send Unauthorized Texts, Says Court
Yes. In the top right of the post there is an expandable menu. One of the choices is save post or save link to post.
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c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: HN comments are underrated
Yes, those poor persecuted "whites". With the minorities running the U.S. now, it's very dangerous for us. I narrowly avoided being sent to one of the "whites" concentration camps myself.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: HN comments are underrated
This is certainly true. The "race of users" isn't being "police[d]". It is just a reflection of the subject matter of HN and a reflection of the tech field in general.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: HN comments are underrated
Nothing, but it certainly limits perspectives.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Hackers say Friday's massive DDoS attacks were just a dry run
This is trolling
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol
You answered your own question. No, serious threats do not use Facebook Messenger. The reason it's limited deploy is technical (for now) not caging. Metadata is more important than content. They will always have the metadata.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo
I think the implication is for Google to just do search. Nothing else. Not to be niche product with a few users.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers
Do you enjoy Verizon press releases? "Miles ran", "houses passed". Industry doublespeak. NYC residents invested those billions via rate hikes the PUC granted to Verizon!! It was subsidized even though Verizon claims otherwise. And they didn't deliver.
http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doitt/downloads/pdf/verizon-audit...
https://www3.dps.ny.gov/pscweb/WebFileRoom.nsf/Web/B849A0203...
http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/415-15/de-blasi...
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
Not going to comment on the efficacy of "used" versus "user" in RMS' argument here. However, your comparison to "Democrap", etc. doesn't seem to fit here very well. The former is a shorthand for his entire argument and technically correct. Facebook "users" are "used" by Facebook. This is their business model. The latter is just simple name calling serving no useful purpose.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
It won't be fixed. If anything it will be worse...
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
This is the most bizarre thing I've heard. People want Snapchat, Instagram. People have LinkedIn. No one wants it. It's a dinosaur. People using it actively just haven't realized it's dead already.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
What makes you say that? Why do you think this is rogue employee behavior?
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
LinkedIn at 10% of Facebook's cap is super over valued. It's pure spam. Everyone is suggesting Microsoft will improve, add features! It would have been better and cheaper to create from scratch. LinkedIn exists in a space that none of the big player care to enter seriously.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
Facebook is irritating and intrusive. LinkedIn is spam. It's garbage used because legacy and lack of alternative.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]
Not respected maybe but lolcode is functional, complete, and extensible.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: FBI wants access to browser history without a warrant in terrorism, spy cases
Not relevant to your point, but Hoover never retired. He died in office.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: This is the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years
You do realize that Stuxnet required a failure of physical security. Either an agent inserted intentionally via USB or an employee inserted a compromised USB unwillingly. Neither should happen in a secure facility.
The paper shows simple yet sophisticated POC. The simplicity is the scary part. BTW, do you think the University of Michigan spends more on research than the NSA, GCHQ, BND, DGSE, 3PLA, etc.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: This is the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years
No. If your job is to secure systems there is zero difference. If other than primary has key, it's not secure. If you can break in, it's not secure. Legal arguments are irrelevant.
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: This is the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years
Host OS being compromised is one thing. Hardware compromised? VM won't help you
c_c_c | 9 years ago | on: This is the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years
I really hope you're not involved with securing sensitive systems. This is the nightmare right here. Who cares about hardened a OS when the hardware is compromised in a way that is virtually undetectable. Very few have the resources to verify every item on the board and its purpose. The fact that this is even possible is a problem.
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