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intunderflow··on FBI raids researcher who discovered private patient data on public server (2016)
Don't responsibly disclose, it's not worth the hassle anymore. Unless somewhere has a paid bug bounty program that has a good reputation I just use an anonymous email and send the bug to https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
intunderflow··on Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material
Unfortunately this looks like Amazon is hosting it on a special, on-prem, air-gapped group of servers similar to AWS GovCloud, so we can't look forward to misconfigured public S3 bucket shenanigans
intunderflow··on Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Had Dozens of Planning Meetings W Members of Congress
Unfortunately the overton window has shifted so far I doubt anything will happen because of this. There was an opportunity directly after this to come down hard on it, there was some action, but not much.
intunderflow··on Electrical engineer spends $150 a year to eat all his meals at Six Flags
This is a great example of perverse incentives, although I'm not sure I'd want to put my body through that
intunderflow··on Intelink
Since this is just going to be connected to DNI-U / NIPRNet at most, so only unclassified / sensitive but unclassified, it probably is more "Enterprise-Ticks-All-The-Boxes-Secure"
intunderflow··on Intelink
The internet-facing side of this is https://www.intelink.gov/, it uses DoD Root CA's though which won't be trusted in normal browsers.
intunderflow··on Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details
Some of these keyword orders seem obscene in terms of how many people they target:

> ("fragmentation") AND ("bomb" OR "explosive" OR "ied" OR "explosion" OR "pipebomb" OR "pipe bomb" OR "PVC bomb")

intunderflow··on Fastmail is having problems again
As my mail client just downloads my email and I use my own domain, PurelyMail is strictly for delivering and receiving as well as having a nice webmail, for me the answers to this question they posted at https://purelymail.com/docs/companyPolicy#bus are sufficient to deal with my concern for now
intunderflow··on Fastmail is having problems again
I've been using https://purelymail.com/ for a few months now and found them to be excellent
intunderflow··on Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?
It's not 500 years, but you can lock objects in AWS S3 for up to 100 years, depends if you're satisfied AWS will still be a thing in a century.
intunderflow··on Jack Dorsey mocks Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse plan, saying it's dystopian
I used to work on and with a lot of folks over at Roblox and still don't understand the metaverse hype, when you ask them to explain it they go off into these speeches that make me think they don't even understand it themselves.

To me, it feels like a lot of the metaverse hype is just companies (and their founders) looking for some higher purpose, rather than just saying "we're a social network" or "we're a gaming platform".

intunderflow··on GitHub degraded performance – resolved
With Actions they do this, if you're on GitHub Enterprise and run an action it picks machines out of a special pool set aside just for enterprise customers.
intunderflow··on GitHub degraded performance – resolved
When GitHub is down we legally don't have to do any work, it's in the constitution I swear
intunderflow··on Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion
Nice stuff, what sets you apart from your competitors like https://super.so/ ?
intunderflow··on Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site
> This situation in particular really tests my willingness to assume good faith on the part of the governor and his body of advisors

I think by this point it's very clear he's acting in bad-faith to try and cover himself from the fallout.

intunderflow··on FCC Official calls for ban on DJI drones
It's hard to argue against them saying national security, because they're never going to release anything hard and fast. The US government definitely has a track record of waving it around as a blank cheque though (for a more recent example the TikTok U-Turn)

However, this quote in particular feels like scaremongering, with vague hand waving about a drone with a camera doing exactly what you'd expect a drone with a camera to be able to do, but with a few more vague accusations that I'm not convinced by (If a drone can remotely measure heart-rate that's very cool though and I'm interested in how):

"“DJI drones and the surveillance technology on board these systems are collecting vast amounts of sensitive data — everything from high-resolution images of critical infrastructure to facial recognition technology and remote sensors that can measure an individual’s body temperature and heart rate,” Commissioner Carr said in a damning statement."

intunderflow··on FCC Official calls for ban on DJI drones
If you can't compete, ban it. The new US Government mantra
intunderflow··on Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
Waiting for IBM to sue GRUB for using their copyrighted number 0xAA55
intunderflow··on Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
It either got hug of deathed or just had the plug pulled :(
intunderflow··on Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
The DMCA needs reform, but it will never happen. All-to-often it's used as a tool to just take down stuff people don't like.

People don't care about the "penalty of perjury" part because nobody enforces it.

What's the solution? Even if there was one, would Congress actually enact it?

intunderflow··on [dead]
Right now the actual website ( https://truthsocial.com ) appears to just be a landing page for a waitlist, so there's no social network yet.

While it's interesting that Trump has launched a social network I think they're going to struggle with the network effect and be in the same situation as Gab, where because all of their users are there for one purpose there's no general discussion about any topic beyond users being pro-trump.

intunderflow··on [dead]
This is actually interesting to see and I didn't know about it. Posting comments like this makes me feel like you're just trying to stir the pot though =/
intunderflow··on [dead]
Right now this just appears to be a landing page for a waitlist.

While it's interesting that Trump has launched a social network I think they're going to struggle with the network effect and be in the same situation as Gab, where because all of their users are there for one purpose there's no general discussion about any topic beyond users being pro-trump.

intunderflow··on Bill Gates advised to end inappropriate emails with female employee in 2008
I had to remove the word reportedly because of the character limit, super sorry I just couldn't see what else to remove that wouldn't significantly mess up the message.
intunderflow··on UK PM urged to enact ‘David’s law’ to end online anonymity after Amess’s death
One that comes to mind recently is the Irish-sea border as part of Northern Ireland Protocol spanning from Brexit.

This was challenged as being in violation of the Acts of Union 1800 (particularly Article 6, which establishes an all-UK Customs Union) but the High Court ruled that the relevant parts of the Acts of Union are "impliedly repealed" by the Withdrawal Agreement Act.

There's a BBC article covering this here: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-57666255

intunderflow··on UK PM urged to enact ‘David’s law’ to end online anonymity after Amess’s death
While the UK does have a sort-of constitution as a mashup of laws and conventions it can be amended by the government of the day by simply convincing their majority in the commons to vote for it in the form of a new bill, so it's considerably weaker than constitutions in other states that require significantly more consensus to amend (such as the USA).
intunderflow··on UK PM urged to enact ‘David’s law’ to end online anonymity after Amess’s death
Mods: Title from article was too long to fit, feel free to adjust as you see appropriate
intunderflow··on Why has the price of electricity in Europe reached record highs?
Customers have already agreed their tariff (how much they pay) with the supplier, since a massive spike like this wasn't predicted and the supplier is obligated to keep paying to supply their customers regardless of whether its at a loss some suppliers with limited capital reserves are quickly burning through them.
intunderflow··on Sci-Hub new published papers are now available
You could donate via Monero so from the Sci-Hub side its impossible to track back to you
intunderflow··on Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
Remember that if Sci-Hub helps you and you can afford it, a donation to them would go a long way to helping keep them afloat.
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