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Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:23PM (#49729371)
Why would anyone be using images of government IDs when modern documents have NFC chips with the data, signed and with anti-cloning mechanisms on them? If they can verify an Apple Reference Image they can verify an NFC document.
Re:I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the ye...
on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:18AM (#43332133)
Because there's an AI sales pitch at the end.
Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books
on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:29PM (#19117788)
Especially since one of the books he mentions, Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, has a 3.97 - which just barely misses the criteria, and yet has a big fat red X. He gave rated it 2 stars, so this seems to be confirmation bias more than anything.
Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook
on Sunday August 13, 2017 @11:14AM (#15003220)
Sure you can -- install an adblocker or one of the other extensions that allows you to block FB tracking. I agree that that only protects those tech-savvy enough to know how FB is tracking you and what to do about it, but there are steps we can take while fighting against corporate mass surveillance.
Re:CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web
on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:05PM (#12812419)
You can't get me to enable ads unless I'm assured they are not delivering malware. If you can't do that, count me out.
Re:Tor Users Might Soon Have a Way to Avoid Those Annoying CAPTCHAs
on Saturday October 01, 2016 @08:38PM (#12620536)
Couldn't CloudFlare track a Tor user by tracking the tokens it gave to a particular user, then track them when their client used one of those tokens to validate?
Re:Linode-hosted DNS zones were down
on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:23PM (#12347794)
The email I received:
DNS Performance Issue Incident Report for Linode Investigating We are currently experiencing denial of service attacks that are targeting our DNS infrastructure. Aug 23, 20:48 UTC This incident affects: Hosted DNS Service.
Ask HN: Physical InfoSec tools/habits
I'm looking in securing my life, and while there as tons of privacy and security software tools around, I haven't found a good list of physical tools people use and how they use them for a more secure existence.For example, putting my cell phone in a Faraday bag when traveling, storing my private keys on a USB key that wipes itself after 10 failed unlocking attempts, and so on.
Re:The San Francisco Suicide Club (1977-82)
on Monday February 09, 2015 @08:05PM (#9024801)
It reminds me a bit too of The Institute (I watched the documentary on Netflix: http://www.theinstitutemovie.com/). I'd really like to play a game like The Institute, but this seems a little darker, or at least the name kind of implies that.
Re:Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine That's Grossing $1.5M a Month
on Sunday February 08, 2015 @04:18PM (#9018614)
"the 400 bitcoin millionaires with at least BTC2,000 hold 40% of bitcoins" from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=316297.0
This is the main reason I'm highly skeptical of bitcoin, not to mention wildly fluctuating value, little if any privacy gains (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/07/14/how-privat...), and a host of other problems.