spwert | 13 years ago | on: "The whole Droplr stack runs on HTTPS" ...except content
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spwert | 13 years ago | on: Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking Farsi
Whoops. Yes I did.
spwert | 13 years ago | on: Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking Farsi
The only person in the wrong here is the customer service representative who's violating US sanctions against Iran by selling an iPad to an Iranian citizen.
e: can't read, see below.
spwert | 14 years ago | on: Maybe we're in a bubble but it doesn't matter
> News sites with a better grasp of how the Internet works, like HuffPo or Mashable, are worth hundreds of millions.
I've been wondering - when all the old media inevitably die off, where are these aggregators going to find their content?
spwert | 14 years ago | on: Linus talks about Apple laptops, Linux distributions, his work
This tidbit from the interviewer made me laugh:
> Surely there’s an opportunity there for the global Linux community to influence laptop design for the betterment of everyone?
Yes, because Linux-influenced hardware has worked out so well in the past. Do we really want to reenact the Android catastrophe in the laptop space?
spwert | 14 years ago | on: You Are Probably Not a Hacker
Ugh. Do we really need another one of these?
spwert | 14 years ago | on: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
An omnibar that predates the omnibar.
spwert | 14 years ago | on: Consume or Create
"Yet when I step back and actually look at what I read every day I’m faced with articles that can be easily labeled as fluff."
Kind of like this blog post!
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Unless there was personal information in a file I shared using Droplr.
I'm not the person who raised this issue on your support site. I'd never even heard of Droplr until somebody shared this link with me for a laugh. While the title of my submission might not reflect it, I find the lack of comprehension and dismissive attitude of your customer service representative more off-putting than the original security flaw. He closed the ticket multiple times claiming that "the whole Droplr platform runs on HTTPS," when that clearly wasn't the case. Glyph was remarkably patient in re-opening and re-explaining the issue until the rep finally seemed to realize why he was wrong, whereupon the answer changed from "this isn't an issue, we already support the feature you're requesting" to "we're already aware of this issue but it's not a big deal," without even an acknowledgment that he'd so fundamentally misunderstood the request, let alone an apology for blowing him off repeatedly.