HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

lightbyte

1,727 karma · joined July 1, 2016

submissionscomments
lightbyte··on A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death
The person you are replying to was referring to the murder victim. Since you didn't specify a subject

>They don't forget, they just don't care.

>A lot of people completely lack empathy, and our society hasn't done a good job at reducing that number.

Appears to also be referring to the victim. Are you actually talking about the killer here? If so you should specify that.

lightbyte··on A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death
He's referring to the person who was murdered, not the killer.
lightbyte··on A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death
Are you and the OP intentionally victim blaming a person who was murdered for calling out an online troll?
lightbyte··on States Can Require Internet Tax Collection, Supreme Court Rules
So this is another needless regulation that creates more useless rent-seekers?
lightbyte··on A Beginner's Guide to Firewalling with pf
That tip is supposed to apply just while you are learning how to use pf so you don't block yourself from your machine.
lightbyte··on Blooming Password – A banned password check using a bloom filter
Collisions for the entire hash are rare, but this is just a prefix of the hash. I imagine it is significantly more common for a collision in the prefix.
lightbyte··on Blooming Password – A banned password check using a bloom filter
>Imagine that password hashes are six characters, and `abcdef` is the only pwned password we know about. A smaller version of this tool would reject your password if it hashes to anything that starts with `abc` (such as `abc000`, `abcdee`, `abcdef`, etc).

Doesn't that not work very well at all though? If these "abcXXX" strings are hashes, than just because they share a prefix doesn't mean the unhashed password are even remotely similar.

"good-password-123-dog-xxx..." could hash to "abcdeg" and "password" could be the thing that hashed to "abcdef".

lightbyte··on Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all in Bay Area
If your business can't afford to pay employees a reasonable wage it is a failed business.
lightbyte··on Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all in Bay Area
>Why should a high school student working for McDonald's be able to afford a 2 bedroom apartment in the Bay Area? That's not some sort of right.

Unless you are advocating for age discrimination in pay, the fact that a "high school student" can be the one working at McDonalds is irrelevant. McDonalds employees an extremely wide age range of people. Does the 60 year old working the cash register (I've seen countless of these lately) who can't get a job anywhere else deserve to live on the street because you don't think they are important enough to rent?

lightbyte··on The End of Video Coding?
Isn't that because Chrome refuses to add the DRM netflix needs for 1080p content? (I believe it was silverlight)
lightbyte··on Facebook confirms that it tracks mouse movements
Just because it may help out the company and you've seen others do it doesn't make it any less spying on your users.

It would also help out Facebook if someone sent them a daily minute-by-minute log of what I was doing. That doesn't mean they should go try and do it.

lightbyte··on Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
The actual statement from La Liga is in spanish, I translated it with DeepL [1] here:

>Privacy policy of the LaLiga app.

>Regarding the new privacy policy of the LaLiga app, we would like to make some clarifications.

>Origin

>LaLiga has the responsibility to protect clubs and their fans from fraud in the broadcasting of football matches by public institutions (HORECA). These fraudulent activities represent an estimated annual loss of 150 million euros for Spanish football, which translates into direct damage to clubs, operators and fans, among others.

>For this reason, LaLiga has implemented a new functionality in its official app with the sole purpose of detecting these fraudulent exploitations, transparently informing about them and asking users for their express and specific consent, with or without their being able to lend it freely.

>This new functionality for fraud detection is enabled in the app since last Friday, June 8, 2018, only for Android system users and nationally*.

>Functioning

>When a user downloads or updates the APP, the operating system of your mobile device will prompt them through a pop-up window to provide their consent for LaLiga to activate the microphone and geopositioning of their mobile device. Only if you decide to accept it, the microphone will pick up the binary code from audio clips, for the sole purpose of knowing if you are watching football matches played by LaLiga teams, but the content of the recording will never be accessible.

>We protect user privacy

>LaLiga has implemented appropriate technical measures to protect your privacy if you authorize us to use this feature. These measures are detailed below:

>LaLiga will only activate the microphone and geopositioning of the mobile device during the time slots of matches in which LaLiga teams compete.

>LaLiga does not access the audio fragments picked up by the device's microphone, as they are automatically converted into binary code on the device itself. LaLiga only accesses this binary code, which is irreversible and does not allow you to obtain the audio recording again.

>If this code matches a previous control code, LaLiga may know that you are watching a particular match. If it does not match, the code is removed.

>The codes will not refer to your name, but to your IP address and the specific ID assigned by the PPP when you register.

>We will periodically remind you that LaLiga may activate your microphone and geo-positioning and ask you to confirm your consent.

>You can revoke your consent at any time in the mobile device settings.

[1] https://www.deepl.com/translator

lightbyte··on Spanish football league defends phone 'spying'
Would GDPR even cover this? I don't see why La Liga would need to include any personal information about the user in their data. They are concerned with identifying the buisness streaming pirated matches, not who is watching.

Edit: The official statement actually answers this

>The codes will not refer to your name, but to your IP address and the specific ID assigned by the PPP when you register.

lightbyte··on Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter’s Email/Phone Records in Leak Investigation
Private Internet Access has been subpoenaed by the FBI before for user logs and they were unable to comply due to not saving any [1]. That's probably the best reassurance you can get for a VPN.

[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tes...

lightbyte··on Ask HN: Can President Trump Really Pardon Himself, As Tweeted By Him?
Every answer will be speculative as the constitution doesn't explicitly say and the Supreme Court hasn't ruled on the matter (yet).

It's worth noting accepting a pardon is an explicit admission of guilt as ruled in Burdick v United States [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdick_v._United_States

lightbyte··on Why America Is the World’s First Poor Rich Country
>You can be a 17 year old Javascript expert a get a $200k job without going to college.

Please elaborate on what companies hire 17 year "javascript experts with no degree" starting at 200k

lightbyte··on The TSA has a watch list of people who present “challenges” to screening
That would indeed be nice, but unfortunately a significant portion of the country would be diametrically opposed to it.
lightbyte··on The TSA has a watch list of people who present “challenges” to screening
The TSA is a massive welfare jobs program for under/non-educated people, they employ approx. 60k people. The security theatre is just the guise they gave it for the welfare to be accepted by the public.
lightbyte··on USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' says Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
That already exists, it's called GDPR. It doesn't apply to you if you have no presence in Europe.
lightbyte··on I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare
That's not true at all. I currently have a ~$450 bill for a test where I breathed in a tube for 10 seconds at a constant rate. That's after my insurance paid 4k for it already.
lightbyte··on So Your Startup Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter
>I think the ridiculous thing is every mom and pop site and blog and website needs to be gdpr compliant? insane.

The even more ridiculous thing in my opinion is that these mom and pop sites are not already GDPR compliant. What could they possibly be doing that makes not abusing a handful of user's privacy an insurmountable issue?

lightbyte··on Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
>They thought they were dealing with a highly dangerous situation and individual.

Are you saying hearsay from a random citizen is probable cause to go kill someone? If that's the case than the police may as well advertise themselves as the cheapest and easiest to use hitmen in the country.

lightbyte··on Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
So you're saying if I tell a cop my neighbor (who I've never met) is a serial killer, they are well within their rights to go kill them?
lightbyte··on Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
@realDonaldTrump is his official account, as per whitehouse.gov [1]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20180523194453/https://www.whiteh...

lightbyte··on Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
Other posters have not given the actual reason for this.

It is from HBO's Last Week Tonight. The joke is that Trump made fun of Jon Stewart for changing his last name in a tweet [1], which is silly because his family did the same.

>I promise you that I'm much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz - I mean Jon Stewart @TheDailyShow. Who, by the way, is totally overrated.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/32707672042545152...

lightbyte··on Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
>This is his private citizen Twitter account, as far as I'm concerned, and he can do whatever he damn well pleases there.

@realDonaldTrump is his official account, as per whitehouse.gov [1]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20180523194453/https://www.whiteh...

lightbyte··on Prices for dried coffee husks are outstripping those for beans
I think the idea is that people generally say "low fat" to mean healthy (even though that's not true). The "+ sugar" just makes it doubly more unhealthy. The drink itself is the oxymoron.
lightbyte··on Hawaiian Volcano Observatory issues “Red” aviation warning relating to Kīlauea
Seems like that wasn't an understatement, they didn't end up being in any distress at all. The plane landed safely and nobody was injured.
lightbyte··on The Gun-Law Loophole That Entices Tycoons and Criminals to Play Cop
There is no constitutional right for the concealed-carry of a gun.
lightbyte··on Equifax statement regarding extent of security incident announced Sep 7 2017
This is pretty much how it works already. When you sign for a credit card/loan/etc. the agreement includes language saying you also agree for it to be reported to a credit agency.
← PreviousPage 4 of 16Next →