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New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:35:13 +0000

Right, but its just so stupid! People think they are being clever or funny. Its as clever as going into a police station and admitting your crimes. Cool joke!

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:33:58 +0000

Its the world we have made. We make a whole generation of people not care for privacy (FB), and then we are surprised when people assume their finances are not private?

We are all collectively to blame for such privacy failures. The users/victims are simply that, victims of our troubled privacy-less future.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:28:53 +0000

I dont know why people even defend MZ, with arguments like, "he was young" -- he still is young. "People grow and mature" -- yup not seeing it. "People change" -- also dont see it. In fact, the MZ of today is just as creepy (if not more) than sketchy Mark 'Dumb Fucks" Zuckerberg.

Typically, the only defenders of MZ are FB employees. I guess they indoctrinate their employees to their Godhead well!

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:24:50 +0000

True, but its a shame the authorities have no sense of humor.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 29 May 2018 18:21:54 +0000

Who would use Venmo? When I see people buying drugs (see vicemo.com), I shake my head at the stupidity of it all.

I have been asked multiple times by people who want to pay me, and I have flatted refused because of there approach to financial privacy. I try to get them to stop using it also, for their own privacy. Lucky we have other options -- I usually get them into cryptocurrency instead. Hey -- its also open by default, but at least its hard to correlate an address to a person.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "GDPR for lazy people: Block all European users with Cloudflare Workers"

45h34jh53k4j — Fri, 25 May 2018 18:35:44 +0000

You have a responsibility to your users, be they EU or not. The fact you consider "they keep sending it to me" means that you are not considering the whole privacy issue. This data is not yours to do with as you please. Yes they send it to you -- but you are listening, You are the active party here. There is a duty to protect your users data.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "IPO Slowdown Leads NEA to Sell $1B Worth of Startup Stakes"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 15 May 2018 19:56:25 +0000

Bitcoin.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Coinbase releases professional trading platform for institutional clients"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 15 May 2018 14:36:48 +0000

Hyperbitcoinization incoming!

In all seriousness, the attention from institutions, growing maturity of custodial solutions and good monetary policy are colliding. Nocoiners, watch out!

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Encryption Workarounds (2017)"

45h34jh53k4j — Mon, 14 May 2018 16:45:48 +0000

Very nice discussion paper that outlines the taxonomy of breaking encryption. The outcome is six classes of attacks, mitigations and legal implications.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Jails are replacing visits with video calls–inmates and families hate it"

45h34jh53k4j — Mon, 14 May 2018 14:11:52 +0000

I understand you are a student, and you really need a job, but working for an unethical company is not worth it, for your sanity and the world.

You didn't study for years just to end up making the world a worse place.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Ask HN: Where did you find your “cult”? (As described in Zero to One by Thiel)"

45h34jh53k4j — Fri, 11 May 2018 20:16:15 +0000

This group identity philosophy is very destructive. Build your own identity first before you sacrifice autonomy to groupthink.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Ask HN: Where did you find your “cult”? (As described in Zero to One by Thiel)"

45h34jh53k4j — Fri, 11 May 2018 20:15:21 +0000

You can probably guess:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-...

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "[dead]"

45h34jh53k4j — Fri, 11 May 2018 19:50:40 +0000

Huawei will be shipping BTC.com bitcoin wallet on all new handsets. This is something like 80 million new handsets a year.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/huawei-releases-bitcoin-walle...

'blockchain smartphone'... lol..

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Australian government proposes to limit cash payments for purchases to AUD$10K"

45h34jh53k4j — Fri, 11 May 2018 15:14:04 +0000

Update: You could also have said this about dogecoin in 2013, and been wrong also: (man sells house for $130k of dogecoin)

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/26/tech/innovation/dogecoin-...

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Australian government proposes to limit cash payments for purchases to AUD$10K"

45h34jh53k4j — Fri, 11 May 2018 15:07:16 +0000

I think this is a very short sighted prediction. You could have said this about bitcoin in 2010, and you would have been wrong then too.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Who controls glibc?"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 08 May 2018 18:58:53 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor)

RMS is typically correct, even if at the time the industry thinks he is being melodramatic. Everything he said has come true. You either listen to his rants and consider the ramifications, or you watch as all your digital rights are eroded.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Excel Adds JavaScript and Power BI Support"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 08 May 2018 18:33:55 +0000

This is a horrible horrible idea, and will end in tears. We need less active scripting in documents, not more. :-(

Example: coinhive monero miner distributed in xls: https://twitter.com/CharlesDardaman/status/99391267580461465...

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics"

45h34jh53k4j — Tue, 08 May 2018 16:42:02 +0000

One time fee? Apple don't pay for such things. Possibly why there is a black market for iOS exploits.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "If Ethereum Isn’t a Security Then Nothing Is"

45h34jh53k4j — Mon, 07 May 2018 17:59:26 +0000

Title of article is misspelled. Its 'Ethereum'.

New comment by 45h34jh53k4j in "Buffett bashes Bitcoin as nonproductive, thriving on mystique"

45h34jh53k4j — Mon, 07 May 2018 16:23:11 +0000

but will it? I would buy BTC at $1, at $10, at $100... There are many like me. I think its foolish to think that it will reach 0. Too many folks believe in it...