Hacker News: loteck

New comment by loteck in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

loteck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:02:46 +0000

Where is this?

New comment by loteck in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

loteck — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:30:12 +0000

Since the crux of this seems to be about replacing middle managers, what do people think prevents AI from successfully managing 140 direct reports on day to day operations on behalf of a lone CEO? I'm reading "it doesn't work," but that sounds like more of a potential opportunity to me than a truism.

Arizona bill would require voter approval of government surveillance

loteck — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:45:22 +0000

Article URL: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2026/03/26/gop-bill-would-require-voter-approval-of-government-surveillance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538583

Points: 26

# Comments: 1

New comment by loteck in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

loteck — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:41:54 +0000

I wish people would care a lot less about sports.

Marc Andreesen says he has a zero-introspection mindset

loteck — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91510739/why-marc-andreessens-zero-introspection-approach-will-get-you-nowhere

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433530

Points: 13

# Comments: 6

New comment by loteck in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

loteck — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:38:12 +0000

Where are the stories about all the other mail providers who routinely cough up everything about your email account, including full content, metadata, and full payment details, on a daily basis?

Proton is one of the few services who accepts anonymous payment, and cannot themselves provide encrypted content in cleartext. They cannot save you from yourself, though.

New comment by loteck in "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"

loteck — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:23:00 +0000

Hi Cape team,

I'd like a service like yours that allows private signups and that works continuously to prove ongoing private operations. I don't need huge data plans, I'm fine with WiFi mostly. It needs to cost way less per month than your current pricing. It would be cool if you could find a way to serve people like me.

New comment by loteck in "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"

loteck — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:03:12 +0000

Can you please respond with a full throated opinion of what Palantir is today? This seems to be what everyone is thirsting for and what you are perhaps inadvertently dancing around.

New comment by loteck in "State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID"

loteck — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:36:10 +0000

Nobody who would be any good at the job wants to waste their life campaigning for it.

New comment by loteck in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"

loteck — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 03:43:31 +0000

What city is this?

New comment by loteck in "Reminder that HN Active exists and is arguably better"

loteck — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:23:35 +0000

HN's hidden Active section surfaces stories that are getting a lot of comments, which on its own is helpful. The most helpful part of Active is that it doesn't hide Flagged submissions. You may want to be especially aware of a submission that is getting a lot of comments but is flagged.

I'm grateful for HN Active.

Reminder that HN Active exists and is arguably better

loteck — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:23:35 +0000

Article URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46071322

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by loteck in "New research highlights a shortage of male mentors for boys and young men"

loteck — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:16:09 +0000

I appreciate this comment creating somewhere for people to discuss flagging. In my ideal HN you wouldn't be down voted but there would be a rigorous comment thread underneath it.

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

loteck — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465964

Points: 248

# Comments: 136

Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment

loteck — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:51:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255400

Points: 343

# Comments: 152

New comment by loteck in "The impact of the Salesloft Drift breach on Cloudflare and our customers"

loteck — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:55:09 +0000

From OP:

Given that Salesforce support case data contains the contents of support tickets with Cloudflare, any information that a customer may have shared with Cloudflare in our support system—including logs, tokens or passwords—should be considered compromised, and we strongly urge you to rotate any credentials that you may have shared with us through this channel.

New comment by loteck in "FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'"

loteck — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:59:41 +0000

Any discussion of Salt Typhoon should start with the unusual fact that it is still an active and uncontained incident, despite having been widely revealed in 2024. Typically we are accustomed to discussing lessons learned during a post mortem. This particular mortem has not yet posted. We are still owned and data continues to be compromised.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/china_salt_typhoon_al...

New comment by loteck in "I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe"

loteck — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:17:13 +0000

This commentary attempts to reassure people about staying with 23 and me, but ultimately ends up concluding that there's virtually nothing useful to be gleaned from the data created from the 23 and me process.

Author dismissed privacy concerns in the same way we see others downplay it: you already are giving up your privacy in other parts of your life, why not give it up here, too? Total nonsense, IMO.

The conclusion I came to from this, that I don't believe the author intended, is that you should delete your data from this company because it is pointless.

New comment by loteck in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

loteck — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:51:13 +0000

Hi Peter - do you have any specific thoughts for people posting about immigration scenarios here, to help keep themselves safe? Given that it was recently revealed that ICE is monitoring these comments.[0][1]

[0] https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co...

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...

New comment by loteck in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

loteck — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:09:49 +0000

Almost nothing is worth the hype but the book is an enjoyable page turner if you like space adventures and speculative science. Audiobook also got some extra attention, I'd go with that if you like audiobooks.