<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mmvasq</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mmvasq</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:07:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mmvasq" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Fidelity customers' financial info feared stolen in suspected ransomware attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did anyone else notice that if you install Fidelity app it is tightly integrated into messaging app- such that if you wanted to uninstall “messaging” on iOS it first suggests you uninstall Fidelity app? I find this odd given I have had a major major incident with a team that must have some level of access to a lot of platforms including messaging. It is not going to surprise me if they have Infosys doing the monitoring and the person spearheading all of this pain is a guy there who thought I reported another guy for harassment in 2013 (I had not). The mobile platform and app stalking has been intensely impactful. I have to do a lot of hypothesizing, as so little transparency is offered to who is accessing your usage.<p>Check iOS-settings-messaging-iMessage Apps. What is this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 06:34:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612961</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have three identities confirmed - yet the individuals doing the harassment all know best evidence has to come from law enforcement and the logs - not my screenshots. It's part of the game they play with the data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:34:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515088</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This data is already "re-identified" by some somebodies. And complete intent to harm over a course of 5 years proven out. I have evidence, lots of it. The individuals initially affected by the search leak need to be notified by a representative of AOL and probably SOE. Time to stop the dark patterns of attribution games and ready the individuals for what is to come. If I had been caught alone, I probably would have not made it through the harassment that came from the people that have re-identified the data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:33:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515081</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (2006)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My data is in this list someone used for "research". They evidently correlated with Sony Everquest Chats, LinkedIn, Twitter, AOL, corporate email, Meta, Amazon Purchases, Natural Language Processing Data collections, some DFIR (digital forensics) data collection, HR records and so much more. I would say at the time they collected the info I was planning renaissance fest attire, studying security topics and frantically figuring out identities of some gamers who dogpiled on me as a few made genuine threats towards my life and livelihood.<p>I'd say yes, throw disinformation at at, as once I started noticing someone was really doing that level of tracking I did throw disinfo at it... a lot. The problem was with their interpretations from there of searches intentionally made to mess them up - as I neither had consent yet realized I was being stalked.<p>That went on and on and on - until people died - my father thought I was swatting him (I had a welfare check made - not a swat - as they were disclosing his financial advisor and info - he's white and safe presumably) . Yet yes, people did die. It is evident no one understands it is never just them in research or in a channel for conversations. The result of the whole thing was my childhood best friend also being left homeless and run over (by someone opportunistic in the whole process). My brother de-housed by a gang member a party kept sending about (one actually poisoned my dog). My father alienated. My sister used as a puppet for extortion instead of being rehabbed.<p>It's very very very ugly the string of deaths and alienation that came from what they thought was funny research into AI.<p>This old data needs to be located and disposed of or put into proper custodianship. It's grown teeth that cost lives. Throwing misinfo at it is just crapping up the Internet more to push to web 3.0, where the same problem will thrive. Requires legislation. Not quite relaxed enough to articulate how and what right now due to the extensive harassment that came about from it all. Maybe some day. It's been pretty terrorizing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:15:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39513930</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39513930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39513930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Amelia Didn't Know Radio (1993)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am defined as a logical processor in an assessment somewhere. Your activism towards me hasn’t been working since launched by a disinformation actor precisely December 2019. Would be great if someone can tell me where the forum is.<p>Interesting info about root cause, culture and errors though. Also I might care.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 16:35:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304027</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "I [Cory Doctorow] Got Scammed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Put this comment up in every church and every retirement community. I haven’t searched, yet suspect this is the most common elderly fraud besides relatives manipulating them for their estate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:44:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39265097</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39265097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39265097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Cable companies, automakers try to derail FTC, FCC quest to kill misleading fees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is an old trick from companies exposed to a great deal of liability to cover the legal and administrative costs of perfection.</p>
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<p>Some of these comments are funny. I am sure there are plenty of mistakes made by plenty of competent people as I read the next article about Boeing. Good to analyze root cause ….to a point. Some of you hate brave women, who probably would all be classed as reckless and less trained in much but cooking/laundry in that era, and it shows.<p>Now clean up the mud from the reckless 4 wheeling you did before lunch.</p>
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<p>Really good write up</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:07:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256835</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Facebook Engineers: We Have No Idea Where We Keep All Your Personal Data (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very very few companies do. At least they were honest in this case. Not a fan, they were positioned to be leaders not laggers in solutioning.</p>
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<p>Distance is the only solution I know of when the malice is significant and it is at an all time high right now in the USA.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:58:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256786</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once you have lived through reporting to a telco you have been dealing with fraud - you learn the procedures are in a scripted loop, everywhere. The answer will probably be go to store get new sim and never reach conclusion it was swapped for people who do not investigate their situation. I haven’t dealt with sim swapping yet some pretty heinous organized crime now and the folks are nice yet you will never walk away knowing the cause or source of an incident.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256700</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fear culture eats security for lunch. Good points.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256674</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Ask HN: Does anyone feel secure in their job?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are female in Shell, save all your money by 49 and be ready to retire if you have retired from the company. No further tech gigs.<p>They have some dudes in supply chain who play dirty games over other women who went to arbitration (was not me..never been to arbitration). Will be impossible to have them caught. You will have no dignity when they are done. It is complicated how they do it and at best you will wind up with a best guess of involved parties as there is no legal support in the EEOC after 365 days they will wait.<p>Some of the involved aren’t even with the company. They have a fully repeatable process for tech workers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:41:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221854</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When we were once arguing about what real 2G was….</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:44:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217932</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39217932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Security Program Is Shit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s when you step away. Come back later and take that last statement and spin it to a question instead. Can security have viable costs and incentives- what is a new way to improve it? Can’t see opportunity any more then take a break. I hate the nation state lies they muddy the real issues. That is not saying there are not threats, yet the hype and lazy attribution isn’t improving anything.</p>
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<p>No one disagrees. Consider project management; for example, which has had many failed projects, has evolved, is still incredibly imperfect. Health care services, have had many flaws, continue to evolve, are still incredibly imperfect. Marketing, has had many flaws, has advanced, is imperfect. Pick one or two problems and advance them.  Try not to kill people in the process which is all too common in tech.</p>
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<p>She is an adult. Yes adults get trafficked. Especially good looking ones falling into health and economic challenge.
 She has a daughter. Children are hurt when adults are trafficked- no one gets this.
The trafficked party then used to extort me by someone actually pretending to be “cops” with cross platform analytics and data broker access.<p>Craziest thing you ever could have imagined and only an extremely rich tech narcissist can come up with what they did to a woman already being trafficked. They did so to secondarily traumatize me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:35:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216381</link><dc:creator>mmvasq</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmvasq in "Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who is “law enforcement”. Not “cops” as per YCombinator headline. You can’t get a cop to do a thing about online content. I would really like to know who is feeling bogged down. I have a serious case for them that a person was actually drugged, trafficked and extorted.</p>
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<p>So right. I have lived experience with someone who stalked me based on a 20-year-old (literally) 20 years ago - Internet post. At first, I thought they were sarcastic - until they actually drugged my sister and had her call me and I realized they had hired a sex offender to actually stalk me. This app is the same way. No ability to delete or forget what is posted. No one is suing anyone 20 years later, so retention of that data is not needed. It is only kept purely for profiling purposes. Ones that do not seem to add value other than support smear campaign efforts.<p>Having had first-hand experience, it's like walking into a nice resort at age 50 and having someone at the dining table pick up a brawl from a rugby match 20 years ago, thinking oh hey this is where we left off last I saw you.<p>No one should have to experience this.</p>
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