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The press focused on a leaked report that it all happened in a small pizza place. While it effectively (for the leakers) killed progress of the investigation (the one which consequences are being talked now in this thread, so it was very much real) it also gave a catchy name for a while, that cause real investigative reports to jump in.
fake news is a very interesting problem to follow.
My point about brute forcing being useless, is that you hold all the information needed to re-create the hash. All but one tiny piece that is the random number. so brute force is a very effective O(<tiny piece size>). And since it is stored in your locally available data, there is no rate constraints.
because asking everyone how much they have in offshore tax havens is working so well.
heck, not even when the information is given to the IRS anything happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#United_States
Also I suggested you store the daily hash forever. But even if you really erase it every day, as you say, If you or an attacker makes the same request every day at a predetermined time, when you/they get your logs, you/they can use that predictable request to get the daily secret too.
I consider the information to be stored in plain text, and that you would have to have requested permission just the same. You pretty much have an identifiable user (via IP/UA/access time) stored in your logs.
Anonymization is removal of information, not encoding it in a convoluted hash.
None of the information you are using on the hash wouldn't be in the search query itself! ip, user agent, path, date, etc. So there is no way to reverse the hash. You just hash your search query and compare in O(1) time.
The only piece of information that realistically makes the hash slightly difficult to get is the random number refreshed every day. But either you store it (and i have no reason to believe you do not) or it make the brute force effort trivial as I only need to generate the hash with that variable now.
You missed the point that the people fleeing is already stealing tax and are likely the bad parts of the system themselves. They are fleeing from others like them and the justice, to begin with. If the system will collapse or not, i doubt that cross their mind.
This is why sociologist mostly clump all the ism (capitalism, socialism, etc) into religion. They work within the same framework.
If someone said "give all the poor people money to improve the life of a rich person who owns thousands of hotels" you would trhow that person out of the window. Now dress it in the complex Myths, which the article tries to unwrap, and everyone buys!
Q: How can phone companies detect tethering?
A: by working with Google and Apple to inject code in android and IOS to serve that purpose.
because hollywood would never tell a tale that shows the founding fathers as being pro-slavery.
Reparations is still a hot topic in the US.
You have two kind of elite at the top: a bunch of very smart people, completely disconnected from daily work, setting up automated code checks and style rules. Let's call those architects/Engineering VPs. Then you also have a bunch of short term revenue people in a completely different side of the company who owns all the money and set the targets. Let's call those Product VPs
The daily work will be full of agile-cargo-cult (that is, all the meetings agile impose, without any the actual communication), with people in the teams reporting to different chains. Engineers having to abide by the crazy ineffective coding style (usually because nobody cared to provide the tools to help achieve the code quality required), and product/managers abiding by the short term revenue churn.
And since the Product org is the one who decides if target goals were met for bonuses and promotions you see why the actual coders might do that bullshit (e.g. which one ever got you a promotion: "I contributed to hugely announced feature X" vs "I followed all the best practices set up by the architects i have never met and prevented a security report two years in the future from dragging the company in the mud"?)
Most companies denounce the problems of having silos, but silos actually make the smaller org/teams responsible for the entire stack and tools. It is hated by investors because it is more expensive, but in the end, it is the real cost. A very vertical big corp will be cheaper but the reason it is cheaper is because less work is being done and always end up like this for ignoring the human nature of the people that it is made of.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/twitter-suffers-widespread-outa...
quote from that url: "The outage came as President Trump was hosting a social media summit with right-wing personalities and tech industry critics who've accused Twitter and other websites of having an anti-conservative bias."
For #4 to be the actual cause, outages out of business hours would be more prevalent and longer.