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From [2], SoftBank lent billions for employees to invest. That's incredible and dubious! I've been offered to purchase stock of my employer at reduced prices if I hold it for X time, but never been offered a loan to do it.
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:01AM (#23179608)
> 1) Trail Router (https://trailrouter.com)

This is great work! I've been doing this manually, so I appreciate you building this. Bookmarked!

Re:Manage AWS costs on non-production environments on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:58AM (#23178894)
Woah, No! Stop. Their homepage claims "Grant us least privilege permissions to your AWS account(s)."

But then their docs [1] give you this admin policy to use.

  {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "*",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

[1] https://microtica.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/...

Legal escrow! No smart contracts needed
> Create a nonprofit

I like the enthusiasm, but this would get you slapped by the IRS (eventually). Any other ideas?

Maybe if we just pay each other in a ring through a legal escrow? Everyone puts in $5,001, the escrow pays everyone back $5000.

Re:An Implementation of Tempest in GNU Radio on Thursday May 14, 2020 @08:48AM (#23178789)
> Back when I learned this I was shocked

Care to explain? I'm not following..

If you haven't switched to Firefox, you should! There were a few things I didn't like at first, but after searching StackOverflow and blog posts for how to change the settings, I am now fairly happy!
Re:An Implementation of Tempest in GNU Radio on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:11PM (#23170564)
> TEMPEST [1] (or Van Eck Phreaking) is a technique to eavesdrop video monitors by receiving the electromagnetic signal emitted by the VGA/HDMI cable and connectors

I've always thought of TEMPEST as magic and incredibly cool. I get how this works for video, but why is it that infosec recommends for EM shielding of a datacenter? Wouldn't there be so much EM noise from a DC that the data you could pull off be .. noisy? lossy?

The title was too long to fit, so I shortened it a bit

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