Hacker News: kitchenkarma

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption"

kitchenkarma — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:27:54 +0000

You are unable to tell whether any service uses E2E. It is best to assume we don't have E2E services and adjust own opsec accordingly.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption"

kitchenkarma — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:22:12 +0000

Assume these services are being tapped. If you want ultimate privacy exchange keys with your contacts offline and you PGP over any messaging service.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows"

kitchenkarma — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:19:54 +0000

But but Microsoft is goood! Look GitHub! Linux! Open Souwce! I only use Windows because software I need doesn't work on Linux.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review"

kitchenkarma — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:59:39 +0000

Can someone explain to me what is so special in those photos? These look like snapped on the phone...

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Apple contractors listened to 1k Siri recordings per shift: former employee"

kitchenkarma — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 21:06:36 +0000

It's a bit naive thinking that employees would store their electronics in the lockers. Even if you have spot searches (including cavity search) it still doesn't exclude rogue employee just "forgetting" to store his or hers camera in the locker.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Apple contractors listened to 1k Siri recordings per shift: former employee"

kitchenkarma — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 21:04:40 +0000

Do they go through phased entry system. For example phase 1 metal detector arch and a 3d scanner like in the airport. Phase 2 strip naked for body and cavity search and then phase 3 - wear company uniform with attached camera and microphones? If not then I can't see how they couldn't take a pendrive in.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases"

kitchenkarma — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:55:55 +0000

This is the future of electronic money. Companies will decide for you what you can or cannot buy.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules"

kitchenkarma — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 09:36:44 +0000

Shouldn't you also show intermediate page with a privacy warning and a cancel / continue buttons? Otherwise user can click it by mistake and compromise his data.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Latest 737 Max Fault That Alarmed Test Pilots Rooted in Software"

kitchenkarma — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:28:58 +0000

Move fast break things kind of doesn't work well with planes.

Also too big to fail (fall) doesn't apply here.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers"

kitchenkarma — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:38:35 +0000

Typically CS degree means that you can finish something regardless if it makes sense or not. That skill is in demand in large corporations that require people to follow stupid processes and complete tasks that don't reflect on what are the actual needs. Of course there are good CS degrees, but these are not as common as one thinks. The purpose of universities was to gather knowledge and pass it on where it was not possible otherwise to do so. These days people have open access to all kind of knowledge and universities are not as much important as they were. If company lists CS degree as a job requirement, that for me is a good indication of a place I don't want to work in.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies"

kitchenkarma — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:38:18 +0000

It doesn't matter if it is an IP or another identifier e.g. a hash. Person can be identified by behaviour and this is not anonymised.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies"

kitchenkarma — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 20:36:02 +0000

You are conflating identification of a person by behaviour analysis with matching an ID. What is the ID is irrelevant here - may as well be a hash. That just proves my point that this project is not compliant.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies"

kitchenkarma — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 18:18:28 +0000

I don't believe you have understanding what personal data and GDPR is. You are capturing user behaviour and that is very personal regardless if it is "anonymised" or not - and that is without clear need for doing that. That is pretty much against GDPR.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies"

kitchenkarma — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:56:42 +0000

This is very weak reasoning, because you cannot identify an individual by IP either. This project looks like trying to exploit loopholes. The idea behind GDPR is to make sure companies log only data they need. This project looks into logging the data but without expressing why this is even necessary. Therefore I don't think this is compliant with GDPR.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "'My son spent £3,160 in one game'"

kitchenkarma — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:43:17 +0000

Every generation has problems like this. I remember my friend become addicted to calling premium phone numbers when when he was a teenager. When his parents went to work, he would have stayed home and just keep calling all day instead of going to school. Only when the bill came through post his parents went mad and started to blame everyone but themselves. Eventually they got premium numbers blocked, but his son was spending all the money he could get his hands on on call cards. It was a phase for him, he stopped doing that after few months. When he talked about it years later, he couldn't believe that he did this. He says he wishes his parents gave him more attention and explained to him what it is about and why it makes no sense to do something like this. Fascist love such stories, because they can use them to tell people how they should live and create more regulations.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads"

kitchenkarma — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:58:32 +0000

I don't think Microsoft is doing incredible things. They are baiting the developers and just use the strategy of locking people into their constellation of spying services. Acquiring GitHub they got access to all private repositiories and insight to what other companies are doing. This is despicable.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads"

kitchenkarma — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:55:00 +0000

Windows is just a spyware at this point. Never use it for anything serious. Microsoft having more money that they can ever spend, play the "good person" and seduce developers with shiny things, but the underlining strategy to f*ck everyone hard is in play at all times. Don't be a fool.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines"

kitchenkarma — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:29:13 +0000

What do you do if e.g. Instagram ignores your GDPR requests? I have sent them multiple emails about misuse of my personal data and they only replied with a template that didn't address my emails?

New comment by kitchenkarma in "AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores"

kitchenkarma — Sat, 22 Jun 2019 08:58:09 +0000

I have all bug fixes turned off, so I don't suffer from that.

New comment by kitchenkarma in "AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores"

kitchenkarma — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:40:04 +0000

People use Macs also to produce music and for this task the most important is single core performance. AMD is not great at this and it seems like the new line of CPUs could only get on par with Intel which isn't enough to convince professionals to move.