linuxdesktopfo's comments

linuxdesktopfo | 5 years ago | on: HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach

I honestly don't care who this guy is. A centralised server providing this service is a problem. It's not like he is using some magic decentralised thing to run queries so we have mathematical proof nobody can aggregate data. No, it's a server he alone has root running whatever software.

The notion itself of revealing info about you to a 3rd party in order to verify that more info hasn't been leaked seems... conflictual at some level.

Your account presumably isn't new. Are you any braver?

linuxdesktopfo | 5 years ago | on: What happens after a bank closes all of your credit cards?

Credit score is by far the most dystopian thing for somebody outside the US.

linuxdesktopfo | 5 years ago | on: A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS

Hopefully besides the China decoupling we also get an USA decoupling. You can have whatever cultural revolution you want but keep your -ism to yourself, please.

I think in the darkest communist times there hasn't been such foaming mob rhetoric.

linuxdesktopfo | 5 years ago | on: HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach

We don't know what that server is running. If it keeps a log of all the queries then it has a pretty nice list of emails from people that might make good targets.

linuxdesktopfo | 5 years ago | on: HaveIBeenPwned adds yesterday's Facebook breach

Indeed, people assume haveibeenpwned is trustworthy when it seems to be a centralised place of valid emails from people that care about security and thus might have or control something of value?

linuxdesktopfo | 5 years ago | on: Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

> If you're complaining about Linux drivers please do so after using a Laptop that supports Linux (Thinkpads for example)

I bought a Lenovo specifically since they mentioned all their laptops will support Linux in the future.

Note that historically Lenovo didn't really "support" Linux. Remember the Windows tax and how most Thinkpads came with Windows and most still do? Thinkpads supported Linux in spite of Lenovo / IBM.

Anyhoo, my new Lenovo had to wait a few months until the trackpad worked! Turns out Lenovo only meant that business laptops (or some other sub-category) will support Linux out of the box. Silly me.