Hacker News: yaelwrites

Google Workspace's Security Warning Was Just a Sales Pitch

yaelwrites — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:22:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.yaelwrites.com/googlew-s-security-warning-was-actually-a-sales-pitch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692365

Points: 2

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Can People Tell When You’ve Blocked Them on Texting or Messaging Apps?

yaelwrites — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 21:16:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.consumerreports.org/digital-security/can-people-tell-when-blocked-texting-social-messaging-apps-a9942470743/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30064167

Points: 3

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Why is the healthcare industry still so bad at cybersecurity?

yaelwrites — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 15:31:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/why-is-the-healthcare-industry-still-so-bad-at-cybersecurity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22282543

Points: 1

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Safe Harbor, or Thrown to the Sharks by Voatz?

yaelwrites — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:50:31 +0000

Article URL: https://magazine.cointelegraph.com/2020/02/07/safe-harbor-or-thrown-to-the-sharks-by-voatz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22270102

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

German police raid homes of Tor-linked group's board members

yaelwrites — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:37:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-police-raid-homes-of-tor-linked-groups-board-members/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17456899

Points: 7

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New comment by yaelwrites in "Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll"

yaelwrites — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:18:48 +0000

Yeah, that's why I described it as an examples of a bad design choice that may be accidental rather than a dark pattern. I do still think it's misleading, though.

New comment by yaelwrites in "Dark Patterns are designed to confuse and enroll"

yaelwrites — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 06:12:39 +0000

See http://darkpatterns.org/british-airways-distract-from-cheape....

New comment by yaelwrites in "ProtonMail's encrypted email is now available to all"

yaelwrites — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:18:23 +0000

1. It's too bad that Switzerland has a mutual legal assistance treaty relationship with the United States which requires it to hand over any information legally available to their local authorities to the requesting government.

New comment by yaelwrites in "ProtonMail's encrypted email is now available to all"

yaelwrites — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:15:17 +0000

Here's a deep dive into ProtonMail's claims on Wired (disclosure: I wrote it) www.wired.com/2015/10/mr-robot-uses-protonmail-still-isnt-fully-secure/

Awkward How One Woman's Tinder Dates Popped Up as Prof. Suggestions on LinkedIn

yaelwrites — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:04:33 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ygrauer/2015/09/30/linkedin-tinder-privacy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310024

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ruling May Stop Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches at US Borders

yaelwrites — Tue, 12 May 2015 22:58:12 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/ruling-may-stop-willy-nilly-gadget-searches-us-borders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9535560

Points: 1

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Whisper Says It Doesn't Track Your Exact Location–But It Still Could

yaelwrites — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:45:28 +0000

Article URL: http://readwrite.com/2015/03/13/how-whisper-could-track-you-by-ip-address

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9197735

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Meet Canary Watch, a Way to Disclose Gag Orders Without Disclosing Them

yaelwrites — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:37:27 +0000

Article URL: http://readwrite.com/2015/03/09/canary-watch-gag-orders-national-security-letter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9171937

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yaelwrites in "GPG and Me"

yaelwrites — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 06:07:40 +0000

I use Thunderbird with Enigmail, but for some reason it wants to load up thousands of archived emails and crashes my computer. It is annoying as fuck.

While I really enjoy reading and sending encrypted emails, and think it's far better than sending sensitive data in the clear, I am surprised to learn that there are people who use PGP and don't hate it or have issues with it.

Empathy can change the world: an open letter to the tech community

yaelwrites — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:10:59 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@yaelwrites/empathy-can-change-the-world-an-open-letter-to-the-tech-scene-15177f4f04d3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9022626

Points: 3

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New comment by yaelwrites in "Startup School acceptances are out"

yaelwrites — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:43:00 +0000

I got accepted in NYC, had to turn it down because I'd already decided to go to a conference (ironically also in NYC) since I'd assumed I'd be rejected, emailed my cancellation and was told this wouldn't DQ me for SF, and then got rejected. We should have a meetup for all of the rejects, lol.

New comment by yaelwrites in "Founder Depression"

yaelwrites — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 05:22:10 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

New comment by yaelwrites in "Founder Depression"

yaelwrites — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 23:12:10 +0000

Glad to see this being discussed.

Relevant: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychologi...

Why Basecamp just launched an online magazine that shuns technology

yaelwrites — Mon, 12 May 2014 05:16:24 +0000

Article URL: http://contently.com/strategist/2014/05/07/why-%E2%80%8Bbasecamp-just-launched-an-online-magazine-that-shuns-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731307

Points: 1

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New comment by yaelwrites in "Founder Ethics"

yaelwrites — Mon, 12 May 2014 05:14:14 +0000

I'm so psyched to see this. It's incredibly heartening to see YC set a great example because of their visibility and the amount of respect we all have for them in the tech/startup community. As someone who's unsuccessfully worked on getting codes implemented, I think this is absolutely huge and predict others will do the right thing and follow suit.

I agree that this is pretty vague. I don't think the more nitty gritty details (how to make an incident report, who's responsible for handling it, etc.) have to be posted publicly, but hopefully the actual policy is being worked on behind the scenes.