CyberThijs

For those interested: the results page in this PR looks like this:

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/SimonSchic...

This product brings back fond memories to one of those early-internet gems: the "Star Wars mosquito defence system" gag infomercial that was launched 18 years (!) ago: https://youtu.be/wSIWpFPkYrk

Using the PKCS11 certificates on a Belgian eID is cumbersome because the whole 'client certificate' workflow has always been a pain in the butt UX-wise. Many workarounds have been implemented to improve on this, making it less platform-independent than theoretically possible.

The itsme app works totally fine for me, and my less tech-literate family members. It strikes a good balance in UX and security.

All in all, I think that the Belgian government is doing a good job in this. It needs to work well for the average user, which it does! I don't expect my government to spend time and money to support all fringe cases like smartphones that don't run iOS or Android.

One of the goals of the GDPR is to consolidate all the data protection laws of the EU member states. So within the EU this shouldn't pose a problem. For the US, I assume this is covered by the EU-US data shield. I assume a similar construct will be necessary for GB once it leaves the EU.

My bad. I looked up the figures on Wikipedia, where the latest figures were from 2015. Should have read the article more carefully.

To come back on my example: LinkedIn reported a net income of 166 million USD. The potential fine is thus more than 70% of their profit!

The fine is also based on the revenue of the parent company. Say that Nest would be fined, then the revenue of Alphabet Inc. would be used as a reference point! A good enough incentive to make sure that all parts of your operations are covered :-)

Another big recent achievement of the European Parliament is the "General Data Protection Regulation" (GDPR) [1], which comes into effect in May 2018 and stipulates that companies can be fined up to 4% of their worldwide turnover when they fail to protect/process the data of EU-based customers in a proper manner.

For example: say that LinkedIn was to experience a new data breach, and they fail to inform the authorities or their customers in time, then they can be fined for up to 120 million USD (based on a revenue of 5 billion USD)!

I'm surprised that it's so little known here, as the impact will be massive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

Here in Belgium 3D-Secure is also commonplace, and the experience provided by my bank has significantly improved throughout the years. I also don't think it hurts the conversion of webshops around here because everybody is used to performing these extra steps.

It works as follows:

- Merchant redirects me to his payment provider

- I enter my debit/credit card number into the payment provider screen

- I am redirected to my bank website, and am able to verify the URL (no iframes anymore!)

- My bank has two methods of verification: scanning a QR-code with the mobile banking app on my phone, or logging into the online banking website (with a Vasco DIGIPASS 836, which requires a debit card+pin to generate a OTP)

- I verify the amount and creditor in the mobile/online banking app, and sign the transaction with my mobile pin/digipass.

- I am redirected back to the merchant.

All in all, I think it costs me 30 seconds to complete the extra 3D-Secure steps when using my mobile banking app.

Any hints on how I can process datetimes with non-standard formatting properly? I've got mails where the date is formatted as dd/mm/yyyy, which causes Google Calendar to create an event on the 3rd of January instead of the 1st of March.

Has anyone tried the new Glacier-clone of OVH [0] yet? At 0.008 EUR/GBP it seems to be priced very reasonable, and there are no crazy retrieval price structures (altrough retrieval has a 4 hour lead time, just like Glacier).

[0] http://www.ovh.co.uk/cloud/archive/

I'd like to be able to set a minimum quality for torrents that appear in the RSS of my watchlist. This allows me to add it to the watchlist when it's widely promoted when it launches, and watch it when eventually a good torrent appears of the movie.

I've been looking for an aggregator that does this for a long time, but still haven't found it.