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logronoide | 4 years ago | on: I compromised 300 stores and a “Spanish consultancy”

He did not disclose the company name (but easy to guess if you work on IT in Spain), so I don’t think he could have legal issues because of the post.

But, the cyber security professionals working in the consultancy firm can gather easily the small pieces of information left behind and sue him if they find out data extraction, for example.

Keep in mind that he claims he extracted sensitive data, but he could be lying just to be in the HN front page. Who knows.

Unethical, risky… and very stupid.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: I compromised 300 stores and a “Spanish consultancy”

Two companies: his employer because of his lack of ethics and the consultancy firm. The CMS and the company are very well known in the Spanish technology scene and it’s not the first time I have read this kind of reports about their CMS. I will not disclose the name but easy for any Spaniard working in IT.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: I compromised 300 stores and a “Spanish consultancy”

I don’t think HN should be a place for “company shaming”… unless the author contacted the company and they denied/rejected/threaten him instead of fixing the issues. I guess it did not happen.

I see HN as a place for collective learning. I don’t see what we can learn from this post.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: IPv4 pricing

We obtained them in late ‘00 for our tech company. We used them for several years, but the cloud was gaining momentum and we gave up using our own colo platform. We sold them in 2017, redistributing the benefits to the partners of the company as dividends. Fully compliant with the tax laws of my country, of course.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: IPv4 pricing

I have invested in cryptos, stock markets, startups… and probably the most profitable assets ever were several ripe ipv4 prefixes that we owned for years. Insane.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s founder

Joshua has broken the ToS of Discuss because he has access to the tool and got an email address that belongs to Francesca. He used a privileged access to obtain her PII. Under the GDPR that is simply illegal. In Western Europe his behavior could take him to a court.

This is a site where we discuss about privacy in technology, and this is an example of how people with privileged access to PII should follow the higher standards, no matter how disgusting are the opinions, like the ones from Francesca.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s founder

I guess people think I’m ideologically close to her because I’m saying the foundation has poor journalistic standards… but quite the opposite. For the American standards I’m probably a leftist and for European standards a social-democrat, so I find her ideas really disgusting (I won’t write here stronger words). Journalism is really important in a full democracy, we should demand the highest standards.

About the downvoting, this is HackerNews, I can live with that :-)

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s founder

It’s really scary how people assume anybody’s privacy can be exposed without consequences. No, it can’t. In a full democracy only a judge can ask for it. Even journalists have to be extremely cautious before exposing the identity of anybody, and this is a perfect example.

They never contacted her to verify she was the person behind the email and the person that wrote comments in social media. They assumed it was her, but they did not verify it. Even a high school journalist knows this is the first rule to learn: if you assume = ass for you and me.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s founder

The craziest part of this story is the fact that the Nieman Foundation purpose is: “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States and educate persons deemed specially qualified for journalism."

But basically they ignored the basics of journalism not verifying the sources. Nice.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: Spanish Sketches

I’m not justifying the coup. Once the war started both political extremes believed they had the mission to prevail whatever it took. That’s why it became a Civil War and the end of the Republican Spanish State as the way to keep law and order. That’s when the butchery began. The Civil War atrocities came when the Republican Spanish State collapsed and a plethora of “experiments” started to pop up around the country driven by local communist, socialist and specially anarchist leaders trying to do the revolution on their own. The atrocities from the National (rebel) faction started from day one of the coup and they were driven by a centralized and unified alternative “national state” that prevailed because it was better applying law and order, even having very low support from the Spaniards. The Anglo journalists and writers saw how some of these “experiments” worked. It’s not strange to see how they enthusiastically supported it at the beginning and how they changed their mind of even became critic with socialist mindset.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: Spanish Sketches

The simple idea of “the political faction I don’t like did more unmoral things” completely disqualifies your argument. In the case of Barcelona and Levante the lack of a strong Spanish State during the war and the prevalence of anarchists had as a result a lot of “experiments” around governance. These “experiments” lasted from a few months to years, and ranged from forbidding private property to killing the land owners and businessmen. It was not the land of freedom and peace described by some Anglo journalist and writers. It was a hell on earth because it was a Civil War.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: Spanish Sketches

SPANIARDS. I mean Spaniards killing each other. I don’t care who supported what. It was brothers killing brothers. And a kind reminder of how terribly wrong you are about bravery at war: it does not distinguish armies or colors, it’s an individual attribute of the soldier. It’s never an attribute of the army or a faction. Talk to any professional military if you have any doubt.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: Myocarditis After Immunization with mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines in US Military

When somebody catch a flu there are a list of symptoms like fever, aches… but this time I had nothing except the annoying pain of the jab. I realized almost 72 later when my heart rate app raised an alarm because I was not training but I was above 135 bpm. I was surprised because I though the immune response of my body was without symptoms, but no, the immune system was doing its job.

logronoide | 4 years ago | on: Myocarditis After Immunization with mRNA Covid-19 Vaccines in US Military

I had my second dosis of the BNT162b2 last Monday and the only side effect was some pain in my shoulder, or at least that’s what I thought until I briefly checked my hear rate and I realized that 24 hours after the second dosis it climbed more than 25% lasting 48 hours. My average rest rate is 58-62 and at that time it was more than 85. I thought that maybe something was wrong when my walking heart rate for several minutes was higher than 130 when it should range between 95-105.

Obviously my antibodies were doing its job and everything now it’s back to normal. I did not suffer any other side effects like fever, headache, chest pain or tiredness.

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