Hacker News: isatsam

New comment by isatsam in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

isatsam — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:04:33 +0000

This is a surprising response - I was expecting something like "they clicked past an alert notifying that they were giving us this level of access". Just because Windows only has a generic password prompt whenever an app wants to do something dangerous, doesn't mean you can't inform the user via your app's own UI. Others like AnyDesk do exactly that.

New comment by isatsam in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

isatsam — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:41:05 +0000

How was an individual user (in this article's case, a phishing sites developer) able to install your software and seemingly not notice the level of access they gave you to their computer?

New comment by isatsam in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

isatsam — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:36:06 +0000

This makes sense, but in this case, isn't the company behind Huntress having direct access to this data still a problem? For example, if the government purchased Outlook licenses, I'd assume DoD can read clerks' emails, but Microsoft employees can't. I imagine worst case compromising a lot of Huntress' users is just a question of compromising of its developers, like one of the people in the authors section of this article.

New comment by isatsam in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

isatsam — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:17:30 +0000

I don't work in cybersecurity and, after looking at the site's homepage, couldn't exactly figure out from all the buzzwords what exactly is this product. The most concerning takeaway from this article for me is that the maintainers of Huntress (whatever it is) can keep a log of, as well as personally access, the users' browser history, history of launched executables, device's hostname, and presumably a lot of other information. How is this product not a total security nightmare?

UK age check law causing up to 2x times traffic to porn sites that ignored it

isatsam — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:33:22 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/31/uk-age-check-law-seems-to-be-hurting-sites-that-comply-helping-those-that-dont/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092956

Points: 5

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New comment by isatsam in "'Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game'"

isatsam — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:39:36 +0000

Unpaywalled, for anyone looking: https://archive.is/dNkQY

New comment by isatsam in "Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing user data"

isatsam — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:40:21 +0000

Snapshot of the article without paywall: https://archive.is/iBOmQ

Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing user data

isatsam — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91376687/google-indexing-chatgpt-conversations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44756677

Points: 6

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