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I'm but a layman but browser-side SSL verification is essentially 3rd-party centralized validation of the authenticity of one side of an encryption mechanism - predetermined vendors tell the browser whether a SSL cert is as claimed and an SSL cert is only an encryption key.

This service doesn't care whether a browser-maker thinks its cert is real; they also provide a means to validate that their downloadable cert is as claimed - the cert is valid encryption between you and them, from anyone not you and them, despite whatever errors a browser throws up.

It's becoming apparent that describing Snowden's role at the NSA as a "regular/vanilla" analyst, or system administrator (media/government narrative) is an imprecise understatement.

There was a NYT story a couple of days ago which claimed that he was a NSA-trained 'hacker', he self-described as a 'infrastructure analyst', and a long time ago as a 'wizard.'

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/us/resume-shows-snowden-ho...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Career

I know people who with just 'Analyst' as their titles have tech-PM'd MS Project implementations at large telco's, and others making stupid money in finance - it's also the title extraordinary spies are given in movies.

Does the fact that they're contractors and not employees absolve the contractee of some/any liability/culpability? Perhaps, further, even recursively as the contractors themselves wouldn't be able to discuss the contractee's business to the extent a direct employee could?

It does seem absurd if there isn't politico-judicial rationale.

I'm a PM in digital advertising and normally I wouldn't work with code - I largely build one-offs with vendors so issues/bugs and deliverables - Sifter is by far the best I've used. It does one thing and it does it really really well, has a negligible learning curve, and looks pretty - oh, and it's cheap.

https://sifterapp.com/

Not that there's a reason why it wouldn't be used with code, just a disclaimer.

Related further reading for trainwreck geeks:

EDS (now HP) infamously botched a 1-year ~50million-turned-4 year-multi-hundred million dollar CRM project for BskyB a decade ago, and eventually lost a years-long lawsuit.

http://www.linklaters.com/Publications/Publication1403Newsle...

Did you fulfill their request?

Don't know if this is intentional, but I really like the use of she in reference to the user in the blogpost. I've never seen that before and it's very refreshing, seemingly valorizing the user as if they were a country or a vessel. Consider it "borrowed"; thank you.

You should have just jumped on IRC prior to panicking--you would have gotten an update instantaneously. Or better yet, you could idle a detached screen in there. When I had a Linode a few months back, there were constantly 500 rather helpful people in their channel.

Organized music piracy (mp3 scene) began in the summer of '96 when 3 of the major groups were formed (of which RNS was the most famous and long-lived). By '97 it was 'adopted' by the software (warez) scene, and also borrowed its supply and distribution chains--there was now competition for having the fastest releases, as well as means for getting these ahead of official release dates--precipitating popularity.

According to mp3scene.info, there's was mp3 piracy on usenet as early as '95.

Google will delist them eventually. You can also speed up the process:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en&...

Bouncing, interpreted strictly, refers to masking your IP on IRC by going through a different host which is running such software (bnc). It is widely used innocuously.

I suppose it can also encompass alternative ways of hiding your IP by going through separate machines, but I think the author of the document would have said so explicitly considering he's used proper terminology elsewhere ("vpn", "proxy").

Out of the major banks in Canada, the one with the most ATMs is the smallest--and incidentally also has the highest Forrester's marks in online banking.

This article is devoid of insight. The author didn't even do basic research on the topic, because, as already mentioned, the easiest route--creating a temporary linode--isn't covered. Linode's own documentation covers back-ups much better.

The referral code at the bottom was the icing on the cake--and then I noticed the self-submission.

Not when I search for 'Zephoria'.

.org (her site) has the first 6 spots; .com (them) has the next 4; and then it's her twitter and flickr accounts.

Accenture positioning themselves as a support monopoly for deprecated but widely adopted--and therefore highly lucrative--technology?

The biggest asset is the database I would think. There is a lot of personal information in there that could be synthesized and extrapolated many ways--and also be used as-is.

That is very standard legal. If they did so, the impending class action would already be over.

I wouldn't be surprised if that blog post cost them well into 6 figures for legal fees. And that it took the full week to draft and approve--it is probably the reason this announcement took so long to emerge.

It doesn't seem to factor already enabled server-side gzip compression? It appears to only grab the files as-is...

I've worked at a large FI where there is an entire team devoted solely to this task--"communicate with/between stakeholders and techies when something doesn't work." I have no idea what they do--or are qualified to do--if otherwise. They are 10 deep with 3 middle managers and a senior, out of a 100ish department devoted to the FI's .com and online services front-ends. There is another team for customer support.

Although definitely overkill, and understandably in an organization that doesn't particularly value efficiency either, it goes some ways to illustrate the importance of these communication channels in mission-critical environments.

What kind of 'subject matter expertise' do you have on-board?

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Federal authorities unsealed an indictment Friday against the founders of the three largest internet poker companies operating in the U.S. The indictment charges eleven defendants, including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker, with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses, according to Federal authorities in New York. Restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts used by the poker companies and their payment processors, while five Internet domain names used by the companies to host poker games were seized, federal authorities added in a statement. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/doj-indicts-founders-of-top...

Indictment http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/April11/schein...

How the book was made is discussed in the 'forward'--which is viewable in the preview.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news--perhaps somewhat mitigated by the lack of hardcopies--but it's 'foreword' and not 'forward'.

That is, unless this is either some technolingo or inside joke that I'm not privy to.

What's the difference between this and gumroad? Which only launched several days ago...

I think you were looking for tenets--quotes not necessary.

That will certainly ensure only the acceleration of the decline. The ecosystem will be isolated and perpetuation of 'preaching to the choir' will ensue.

How would have all of the now-members of both HN and the greater 'community' have stumbled upon this resource if it was invite-only?

How so? They were negligent. Beyond that, you're also assuming the client didn't have lawyers--there's no way this contract gets signed off on without the vendor absorbing the risk.

If all the legal work was done properly, the vendor would end up in court with their insurer.

Actually, big corporations outsource to transfer risk and not because it's cheap. To compliance/legal departments, paying exorbitant fees to qualified vendors is saving money in their risk analyses.

Granted I'm not a psychologist but am extremely familiar with the literature/research on AS, and everything I can recall promotes a severe disability in recognizing, interacting, and making connections with/between individuals, groups and environments--which is how I would define 'streetsmarts.'

But you're absolutely right in saying that it isn't black and white. There are also plenty of misdiagnosed cases; and the research and criteria continually evolve.

How about them not feeling charitable enough to offer any reward for something they've probably wasted many thousand man-hours on?