ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Chrome extension that finds HN comments for the page you have open
Glorious
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ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Merck’s NotPetya attack: Was it an act of war?
Yes it was. I think everyone from Five Eyes to private cyber-security experts have said this already for the past two years.
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse
Actual source: https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-truedialog-leak/
Saved you a click
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse
This article massively overhypes the breach. 2FA and password resets have a very short window of validity. The database contained historical messages and did not operate in real-time.
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Securing Smart TVs
Another sound advice that the media is gonna overblow in 3, 2, 1...
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything
paywall... ugh
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Firefox Replay
For those interested into how this works, look into Time-Travel Debugging and the WebReplay API
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: German murderer wins 'right to be forgotten'
Was there even an internet for someone to chronolog his murders back in 1982?
I don't get this article at all...
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: 1.2B Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Amazon deforestation officially hits highest level in a decade
But the amazon fiiiireeeess... lungs of the eaaaaaaartthhh
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Intel desktop board BIOS update end-of-life
Not "ALL" BIOS drivers.
Just legacy ones, for boards released in the 90s and early 2000s.
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Thousands of hacked Disney+ accounts are already for sale on hacking forums
I see some 2FA in Disney+'s future!
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: How the Blockchain Technology Will Impact Mobile Application Development
I wish there was a blockchain filter on HN
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed
The feature still exists. It's for their Stories support.
Basically, the iOS app is prematurely pulling up the camera view. Nothing super shady as the linked (garbage) article implies.
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze, displaying scary message
This was fixed in June. The new bypass was found a day before the article was published. The journalist literally gave Mozilla one day to fix.
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Paged.js: Paginating content and making books in the browser
Oh, great! Some more garbage that only works in Chrome... because hipsters and lazy devs looking for jahbs!
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: W3.CSS Home
wow, they have a responsive CSS framework
i'm impressed
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze, displaying scary message
wow... one single website used it... now thanks to some dumb journalist, a lot more are going to use it too
aren't reporters supposed to wait for a patch?
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: WordPress usage worldwide
Google Translate link for the article at the end of the repo:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
ga-vu | 6 years ago | on: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
It's been at over 90% for more than a month, from what I can tell