stebann | 6 years ago | on: Uncovering the CIA's Crypto AG operation
USA hypocrisy again. Oh! We will ban Huawei while we sing racist slurs in every country around the world!
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stebann | 6 years ago | on: Facebook sues Namecheap
Why malicious? Facebook claims are bullshit, they deserve it and they're not exactly the people who has the best ethics shots.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily reality
If you can't get any job then you're done. Even if there're jobs but employers want the prices to fall for a specific occupation, then you're don too. This is not specific to South Korea though.
I believe that this situations could get better if HR companies weren't thriving everywhere just cutting down any opportunities for the people with stupid assessments, even universities graduates, and letting the experienced and trained personnel that belong to a business make their calls, but this depends on the business willingness.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Critical PayPal Security Hack: Multiple Thefts Now Reported–Check Your Settings
#NOFREEBOUNTIES
stebann | 6 years ago | on: “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
This is not funny, many of us live in countries where we need that money. We're underpaid but we try. I'm glad that we have high quality researchers in this platforms but punishing us goes too far.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
Hackers of the world, unite!
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Welcome to the Era of Fake Products
No Amazon. If you can, contact the seller directly and agree with them the terms for buying and delivering. In most occasions they already have some standard for this.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
I don't even have the coding level that the writer has, but I felt myself so expelled from the industry that I quit looking for jobs. I just gave up and started working independently. Financially now I'm really broke but I think I'm better with myself. Maybe I'm not the "super-programmer-hacker" but at least I don't have to participate feeding the sadistic pleasure and sense of power that recruiters have on us.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Millions of Tiny Databases [pdf]
Congrats!
stebann | 6 years ago | on: To become a good C programmer (2011)
This is a good list because it isn't a gigantic compendium about C.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Amazon can’t end fake reviews, but its new system might drown them out
What about the trade offs between privacy and the possibility of being part of a community? I mean, you have some way to identify core characteristics of the subjects whom make the reviews, and if you can't do that, how can you trust them?
stebann | 6 years ago | on: 500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users
Yes, this again. I ask my self what is the process for approving extensions deployment, because they are dangerous. This is so obvious that I still can believe that Google can't catch (most of) them. Sometimes you try to believe that malicious extensions are very few, but then these news hit the ecosystem. Time for a reality check.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Petri Nets Are Monoids (1990) [pdf]
Thanks. I forgot to appoint that.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Six decade-long disinformation operations
Six countries: the bad guys of the movies, exception was Ecuador, allied country with an illegitimate government backed by Trump administration.
Why nobody in USA wants to investigate the accounts that helped with military-civil coup in Bolivia against Morales by a bunch of racist and neonazis backed by US ambassador, or their intervention in Brazil against Lula Da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. Hypocrisy.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: The secret of academic success, or fun filled failure if you prefer
As an undergrad in CS I can say that that politics limit your moves, at least where I live. So the answer is YES.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers
Someone have mentioned spam after being forced to provide his/her phone number to Twitter, and I have known of similar cases in 2019. I also remember a case where the police matched a twitter handle to a phone number and proceeded to arrest a guy who have been a strong activist against electronic vote. So I can conclude that this bug was well known at the beginnings of 2019.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Website data leaks pose greater risks than most people realize
Having read about anonymization techniques I have started to believe that definitions of anonymity and pseudo-anonymity are well settle by now but criteria that contributes to the invariants for performing data transformation are not, so the result is that this criteria fail to guide the implementations of the transformations.
You keep data because data is economically valuable, but even when you care enough to implement some techniques that depends on the invariants you still fail to achieve something the better because of scale and because you don't want to refine the techniques. This also means that somehow somebody may have a technique that, provided enough pieces of data, can reverse you transformation.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Petri Nets Are Monoids (1990) [pdf]
They can be used for modelling actions and states, including the tricky cases where an automaton would become too complex.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
I disagree, Python scripting will tie you to Python development uncertainties, while shell works with most operational environments.
stebann | 6 years ago | on: The word “mafia” is never heard in The Godfather
Yes. Ans if you ask someone if that is bad they'll reply "No, that's how it works". There's no crime or illegal thing when you consider the activities from the inside, in this culture some people even deny its existence.
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