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New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Russia fines Facebook $50 for failing to comply with local data privacy law"

0xFFFF0000 — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 17:57:03 +0000

Facebook didn't even appear to court to defend itself.

Is this some form of silent warning, and if FB continues to violate the regulation they will be shut down in Russia? It's unclear from the article, but it highlights LinkedIn being blocked entirely in 2016.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility"

0xFFFF0000 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 04:47:43 +0000

Weird question: Could Microsoft sue Amazon here for infringing on the DocumentDB name? I mean Microsoft's DocumentDB was among the first to even have such a MongoDB layer also) and that was like 3 years ago.

Given that current Amazon leaders actually came from Microsoft's data platform group this leaves a bit of a bad taste behind.

I'm not working for either company.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility"

0xFFFF0000 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 04:41:14 +0000

I had the same observation (although I'd reconsider your wording, that's not very polite). It doesn't seem like a good choice in naming - especially because many of the Data Platform folks at Amazon (like their VP) came from Microsoft's data platform group.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility"

0xFFFF0000 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 04:39:26 +0000

Microsoft was first with a MongoDB layer, like some 3 years ago I think. Nothing novel here from Amazon.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

0xFFFF0000 — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:06:25 +0000

Oh, no!

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines"

0xFFFF0000 — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:23:51 +0000

Yeah, most bothering to me are flights were there are some weird seat poles on the seat in front that prevent regular backpacks from fitting in the seat in front - I have had this a few times, it's very annoying having to put the backpack with computer and stuff in the overhead bin.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "A Conversation with Paul Graham [video]"

0xFFFF0000 — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 06:12:46 +0000

still doesn't change what happened in the youtube video - just to be clear

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing"

0xFFFF0000 — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 06:03:36 +0000

You can still get phished, and have your password be stolen. It just doesn't allow you to login in to the FIDO protected resource. Other endpoints might still work if they dont' require FIDO or you reuse the password.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Google: Security Keys Neutralized Employee Phishing"

0xFFFF0000 — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:48:53 +0000

The WebUSB angle is interesting - hadn't thought about that. I remember hearing about this during a Chaos Communication Congress talk last December. It only required one wrong click from a Chrome user to authorize exposure.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Inside the Windows Console"

0xFFFF0000 — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:40:07 +0000

Not sure what you mean... PowerShell Console is one of the most modern and advanced consoles there is and it's from Microsoft (compared to old non object oriented and pipelined stuff like cmd here in the article) - but it's still good to see that they haven't forgotten about the good old cmd.exe :)

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Project Cryptbook: Online Social Networks and Privacy (2011)"

0xFFFF0000 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:18:14 +0000

Not sure if this is very useful overall, but it could be a nice as "game" for teens so that they have semi-secret conversations in public that others can't follow.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "About the security content of Security Update 2018-001"

0xFFFF0000 — Wed, 02 May 2018 05:21:25 +0000

Would be good to also highlight the other finders of some of these issues, but this view shows that Google Project Zero is a well executed PR machine taking away the focus of other security researchers. The title of this thread is similarly misleading.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "About the security content of Security Update 2018-001"

0xFFFF0000 — Wed, 02 May 2018 05:14:39 +0000

Exactly what I thought. Project Zero allows Google to segway away from their Android ecosystem mess they left beyind and (even relatively benign findings at times - there was a Defense in Depth issue in Windows recently I remember that got an article) get a lot of media attention, and other researches are ignored. Shows that Google's PR works really well. I first noticed that during Meltdown/Spectre where most of the heavy lifting was done by university students somewhere in Europe, but they nowhere got as much attention as Google. Sad.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality"

0xFFFF0000 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 01:34:14 +0000

Yeah, I agree the way Wall Street approaches this seemed rather defensive. They are trying to appear on top of things, while in reality still are not sure how to tackle bitcoin long term.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Ethereum fixes serious “eclipse” flaw"

0xFFFF0000 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 19:31:47 +0000

Discussion are commonly emotional, rather then rational - it's freedom, it's getting rid of banks, it's a scam, it's a secret project by the NSA, etc... and it's also politically charged topic, and everyone has an opinion, because a lot of people own crypto currency/mine or at least know someone who has. Its rare to see so many people interested in a given topic.

There are great resources, although the are commonly rather vertical, then horizontal by topic. E.g. there is a lot of great technical information out around Bitcoin, how it works, wiki pages that discuss the code and algorithms in details - really useful stuff, e.g: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-guide

Its rare though to find a more "cross-disciple" assessment/analysis of crypto currencies (political, economic impcat, society changes,...). If anyone has good resources, please share.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Turning web traffic into a Super Computer"

0xFFFF0000 — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 19:20:36 +0000

Something like this could be a way to get finally rid of advertisements, and help finance free services in a novel new way if the CPU isn't over committed. I thought the same around crypto mining... Many people might prefer the resource providing/computation option compared to ads.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Serverless Security: What's Left to Protect?"

0xFFFF0000 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:49:12 +0000

Most likely way an APT compromises your service is via an infrastructure attack - e.g. having your service hacked via a phishing attack and then the APT pivots through the environment until they find the mighty AWS accounts. Server-less doesn't change that.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs"

0xFFFF0000 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:42:44 +0000

Well, with BTC you don't need a bank at all.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs"

0xFFFF0000 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:41:26 +0000

>>2) It's been a LONG time since we can transfer money really fast at a really low cost

Transferring money from many places in the world is not cheap or easy (think of third world countries) - but even in more developed countries it can take quite long and have heavy fees. Crypto enables people to be their own bank.

New comment by 0xFFFF0000 in "Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs"

0xFFFF0000 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:36:23 +0000

Might depend on your social circle, some groups might use it more then others. I have seen them being used much more frequently (and way beyond ransomware scenarios). For instance Bitcoin debit cards (e.g Ten X) are quite common and for those that got in the market early, it's a cheap way of buying anything. In some countries it's not even a taxable event to spend it. Still not perfect in the sense of having to use Visa, and down the road transactions will be much more direct when more merchants will start directly accepting crypto currencies.