goldenthunder's comments

> I'm suspicious of anyone who spends their time critiquing others' work so harshly instead of innovating on their own.

How in any way is that 'positive'? Also, read the OP's original post. Is it really that offensive to you? I can almost see it as some poke of a joke--humor. Something that seems to escape the boring minds of those who long to be someone special, DEFENDING THE INTERNET! Stop being a superhero, read the comment and move on. There is no reason for you to regulate anyone's internet experience.

I'm not trying to take sides, but from an unbiased point of view, you argument is invalid.

You clearly don't understand the importance of TDD like many others (count the downvotes).

If you cannot stay with the curve because of your lack of knowledge, maybe you should spend less time flaming on Hackernews and more time studying up, sir.

this is exploitable both ways. humans will always be able to outsmart themselves.

Another good way store passwords is to memorize a simple algorithm based on the topic of your password.

Example: - last 3 letters - a static symbol (let's use %) - @ if it's online / & if it's not - 3rd 1st 4th letter of topic in Capital-lower-Capital format - follow with a short string to increase length and stump bruteforces (lets use gold158)

So my password for hackernews would be: - ews - % - @ - ChK - gold158

ews%@ChKgold158

I'm no security expert, but that seems to be pretty secure and it will be different for each password. You won't ever be in trouble if you forget a password and it doesn't require you to carry around written passwords. If you scramble it a little better than I did in my example, it will look random and no one will try to "reverse engineer" your algorithm. (So when someone needs your password temporarily, you can tell them)

This could affect Facebook in a negative way. Think about big sites that get spammed with tons of fake email user accounts. Making Facebook registration the only option, these spammers will be forced through Facebook first, which just hurts Facebook. (Or do they want that so they can report a larger than accurate userbase? heh)

I was online last night, this thread saged pretty fast actually. Just grabbing stuff to write about off /b/.

The new Ford Mustangs have a kit you can install that does just that. I thought about this a few years back and want it so bad!

Truth. If we vote trustworthy people into government, there is no need for transparency.

No way does Facebook even acknowledge this.

Bottom line: Facebook is worth $x per user. If you have 4 accounts, you are 4 people as far as they are concerned ;)

no it's not.

Yep. I was raised in a religious school and the most fascinating topic we ever touched was when a law is morally and contextually 'ok' to break.

Indeed, as I remember setting some payment stuff up at my parents business a while back-- you can get a gateway setup that uses their web interface to process transactions.

That was a while back, but maybe they have legacy systems.

Either way, they are loosing money one way or another =/

This is a weird subject because it is totally dual sided.

1) It promotes freedom of speech and taking action as a community to promote change.

2) It is completely illegal which goes against the laws and freedoms they are trying to promote.

Right Idea - Wrong Method

A co-worker Engineer just went down to get frozen yogurt. They couldn't process his card. Apparently they route transactions through their domain DNS?

Suddenly corporate powers don't seem as strong. It's amazing how vulnerable something man made is.

It depends on the context; if you offered me 1 penny or 2 pennies, I really wouldn't care. (even though it's a 100% difference)

modafinil = sleep hax.

Actually brute forcing is exactly what he is going. But grabbing people's password hashes isn't really 'easy' w/ a well designed system.

For anyone that wants to try this out, here is the 'german guy's post on the matter:

http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-am...

Maybe I suck at basic prob/stats but if you remove the scanners, I bet the chance of a plane getting blown up by a terrorist is significantly increased. ;)

lol silly ron paul.