Hacker News: zrth

New comment by zrth in "Improving first impressions on Signal"

zrth — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 12:05:05 +0000

crating a new yandex email account works nicely via tor for me

New comment by zrth in "An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software"

zrth — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:08:17 +0000

In this context, a GUI application, it has some meaning. Java GUIs are know to be not enjoyable.

New comment by zrth in "Jim Lanzone to leave Tinder and become CEO at Yahoo"

zrth — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:45:01 +0000

How does you being annoyed by the reporting on a CEO's daycare situation, let us deduce that this CEO was not hired based on merit?

New comment by zrth in "Jim Lanzone to leave Tinder and become CEO at Yahoo"

zrth — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:18:00 +0000

What a misogynist comment: What makes you say that Mayer got hired for being female?

New comment by zrth in "Osama bin Laden was found because his family hung their clothes out to dry"

zrth — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 22:44:02 +0000

Tbh, i think it's just advertising for a book disguised as news.

New comment by zrth in "Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data"

zrth — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 22:12:17 +0000

This is great news. The more people in power have been hit, the more repercussions we can hope for.

One possible way to force a bit of scrutiny upon NSO group would be to crowdfund an Pegasus subscription and use it against Netanyahu.

Any serious suggestions what we can do to ensure that in the long run there will be less and not more "Hacking for hire" companies lending their tools for use against journalists and the opposition?

Shit will really hit the fan when the "ransomware as a service" discovers the "targeted surveillance as a service" business model.. Interesting times to be alive.

New comment by zrth in "What’s it like hauling nuclear weapons across the country?"

zrth — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:47:50 +0000

I'd be quite surprised is someone who lost/had stolen and then recovered a nuc would admit to this taking place. I really don't think we would know if this had happened.

New comment by zrth in "Surgeon general: No 'value' to locking people up over marijuana use"

zrth — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 23:40:17 +0000

Last time when this quote was posted on HN, consens turned out to be that its is quite unclear if it was ever say. I remember this as i really wanted to belief that the story was was true but ended up thinking it rather no true.. Unlike in the article you linked to, last time the conclusion was that the source recalled overhearing Nixon two decades ago, and thus was deemed quite unreliable at best - Anyone know more than me about this?

New comment by zrth in "Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon"

zrth — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:27:04 +0000

When you say "one could be targeted/painting an target on one self" what does this imply? Basically that some group, most likely a nation state actor might hack my systems in the hope to see what else i have and who i am selling to?

Or rather that when i cross the wrong broader in to the wrong country that i might disappear?

New comment by zrth in "Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon"

zrth — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:22:42 +0000

Correct me if i am wrong. I think another reason why ZDI maybe could pay more is because they also have other paying customers that pay for IDS/IPS subscription.

New comment by zrth in "Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon"

zrth — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:34:33 +0000

Gaslighting at its finest.

New comment by zrth in "Leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon"

zrth — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:33:24 +0000

Can you give me a feeling for wat ethical buyers would be. I'd assume bug bounties and ZDI and similar. What else?

New comment by zrth in "Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors"

zrth — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:09:13 +0000

Did you consider they RH us trying to start a run by spreading fear that they are going to be bankrupt soon?

New comment by zrth in "Viking ship in Norway buried near cult temple, feast hall and funeral mounds"

zrth — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:46:03 +0000

Or should we instead rather expand words like "cult" to refer to Abrahamic cultures too?

New comment by zrth in "‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies"

zrth — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 07:59:37 +0000

They say Dec 2019 to Mar 2020: "Our anomaly detection alerted us to high scores in DNS blocking starting from December 2019 until March 2020"

New comment by zrth in ""Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs"

zrth — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:33:06 +0000

I'm a bit surprised about the assumption that remote work is more expensive than on site work for the company. I guess it could depend on the location of the company's office.

New comment by zrth in "“You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation"

zrth — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:46:25 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to write the tl;dr!

New comment by zrth in "Facebook is a monopoly that buys, copies, kills competitors: antitrust committee"

zrth — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:09:50 +0000

> Facebook is not evil in and of itself. Facebook's management is evil.

Sarcastically this make me want to reply that John the ripper was not evil. John the ripper's brain was evil.

New comment by zrth in "Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome"

zrth — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:36:37 +0000

The Wikipedia source you liked to contradicts what you wrote.

You write: 'knocking a whole train off of a bridge and killing everybody on board'

Wikipedia writes: 'The two trains derailed each other, and four cars fell off the viaduct. 40 people were killed, at least 192 were injured, 12 of which were severe injuries.'

New comment by zrth in "Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news"

zrth — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 12:16:33 +0000

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want published; everything else is public relations.

-- George Orwell (possibly wrongly attributed)