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Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by nuclx on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:23AM (#19450088)
Happens with a lot of posts, if they don't reach a critical mass of upvotes early on. In this case probably nobody could verify, if the claims were correct.
Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by punnerud on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:51AM (#19450825)
There is a new feature on HN these days to fix this: If a post get upvotes later, it will often be given a second chance to ‘try to shine’ to the front page.

With this comment I think it was to hard for people to understand in the first place.

Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by dang on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:52PM (#19455248)
It's not if a post gets upvotes later, but rather if a moderator or a small number of story reviewers notice that it was a good post that didn't get attention. We've been doing it for quite a while now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380. The long term plan is still to open this up to all users, not just a few, but we still haven't figured out a good way to do that.
Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by killjoywashere on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:30AM (#19450132)
Maybe we should add a new topline category, "threat reports"?
Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by calgoo on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:48AM (#19450194)
I actually like that option, it would allow us to filter and extract the info as well. I could see a nice little app on my phone where i could setup alerts based on the systems / apps i choose, and getting a notification if one of them where tagged. A little bit like Have I been pawned, but with software and hardware threats.
Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by quickthrower2 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:12AM (#19450284)
This seems outside of HN remit, but definitely worth being a site of its own with an RSS feed. I feel this should be curated not based on community voting.
Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by killjoywashere on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:40AM (#19450406)
US-CERT is already a thing. But we all hang out here. I think this community has a special collection of talents that could foster positive relationships with the larger society.
Re:Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server by jimmy_ruska on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:43AM (#19450420)
Somewhat related subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec