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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019) on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:56PM (#19558974)

No problems! Looks like most all are fixed except "Please choose the country in which you are located." and "Where did you hear about this position?" which are compulsory.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019) on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:51PM (#19548686)

Hey, I think there is something wrong with the form for Support Engineer, APAC (https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4225274002) A lot of the drop down selections don't have any options. I've tried FireFox, Chrome and Safari to make sure it wasn't a browser issue.

Ask HN: Security Projects for CS Grads

Posted by blkcoffee on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:43PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi all, I’ve recently graduated university and secured a grad position in the security field but is mainly firewalls and SIEM’s. I’m looking to work on some more programming-focussed personal projects outside of work to build up a portfolio but wasn’t sure where to start.Would building a “functional” web app with a database and login page and harden those be the way to go? Open to any and all...

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What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

Posted by blkcoffee on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:24AM
from the self-post dept.

I’ve been looking to try get away from Google cloud lately but it’s been hard to find an alternative. I’ve looked at services similar to Google cloud all the way to setting up OwnClouc on DigitslOcean but I’m still unsure. What do you use and recommend for personal cloud storage?

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Re:Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:36PM (#18623625)

From the Bill itself "A person is a designated communications provider if...

4 the person provides an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia

5 the person provides a service that facilitates, or is ancillary or incidental to,the provision of an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia

6 the person develops, supplies or updates software used, for use, or likely to be used, in connection with:(a) a listed carriage service; or(b) an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia"

I believe ProtonMail falls into these categories. As an Austrlaian and a user of your services myself, will this mean getting service "officially" cut off in Australia?