quackerhacker

Ever since I was young I used to think aliens existed, but that aliens used some type of biorobot to explore. Kind of like we do with rovers, and satellites...just not in the image of us.

My accounts cancel every month ;)

[0] http://www.geek.com/microsoft/google-netflix-and-microsoft-p...

When I was young with friends in SF (we were around 12), I remember the most adrenaline pumping thing we did was walk in the muni tunnel off I think Duboce (back in 01', so I'm not sure of the right names) and we'd always climb to roof access in the condo where they lived.

Personally, I never really felt our president has the power to change things. I've always felt that he's the frontman for the IOU's behind him. Even in a dictatorship, they have interest behind them as well...usually military (North Korea is an example). Capitalism is usually favoritism.

This is why I stay out of politics (including omitting my opinion or speculation), because no matter what country you'd like to compare it's dangerous, whether for your life or livelihood.

If you had to say who is most mad at Snowden, at face value, you may say the NSA or administration...but technically he wasn't an NSA agent...who did he worked for (BA).

I'll share my epiphany that I've learned from HN that PG said...if we're not embarrassed at launch time, it's too late. Being a perfectionist my self, it's a brilliant statement.

He deceived wikileak supporters to sell shirts.

Chronicled his "adventure," obviously to source the article.

Attempted to associate with LulzSec and Anon, and did associate with the FBI...for setting up Wikileaks, or ego?

The only thing in this story I like is that the FBI used him and cut him off when he had no more value.

I may be bias here since kpoulsen has done an article on me, but this guy doesn't deserve the attention he'll get...probably use it to sell more shirts

I could relate to Brown here. FBI or SS would tail me when I was on pretrial, I'd hear awkward clicking on my phone, and I'd have severe anxiety attacks. Just recently, my paranoia back then has been confirmed with the PRISM leaks.

Political journalism is dangerous (I think anything in politics is risky though). I give Brown and Hastings a huge huge huge amount of respect to pursue the truth and uphold their own moral beliefs.

I actually agree to an extent with ComputerGuru. The company deploying the code (facebook) is responsible for any exploits. We don't know if Facebook does consult a security team (given the bounty amounts, I'm sure they have one internally).

The real problem with code though is that bugs will ALWAYS exists. They can get even worse as more people have a hand in the package. I've encountered this alot on projects, where code snippets will either be redundant, over complicated, or (in this case is my guess) will conflict with other pattern checks.

To be honest, I'm actually surprise that we heard about this exploit. I'd almost imagine that most companies would be tempted to have the hacker sign an NDA in order to collect the bounty.

Still waiting on Opera to make a move for mp4...especially with the promises that H.265 make in regards to reduced file sizes with great qualities.

Although I know mp4 is patent encumbered, it's too prevalent to ignore (thanks to Apple and Microsoft products).

There's nothing wrong with having a talent and wanting to make a living from it.

Having the video encrypted (since Netflix is pushing for it anyways, why not use it to my benefit), allows me to provide the keys directly to the content owner for decryption.

Considering exploits are supposed to be hard to find (why they're large bounties), it's just the incentive/hush money to pay the hacker, because you have to consider a few things...

1) why and how did you find the exploit (were you trying to hack someones account, stumble upon it [that's lucky], are you a security firm [meaning you have success in this before], were you black hat contracted, ect).

2) a hacker would prefer the recognition [possible employment], the reward [sandwiches aren't free], and release of liability [a company may still file charges for probing their systems 'weev,' is an example]

I can think of very few vulnerability testers that have gained employment at the companies where they find the exploits. Comex is one I can think of off the top of my head (created the jailbreak for iphones, landed an internship at Apple, then career Google).

Utilizing other formats (like vp9, flash, and silverlight [silverlight I think is getting discontinued]) will cut off your ios demographic.

Every time I hear the reward amounts, it entices me to divert my attention to finding bugs and loopholes in systems. :/

If that's the case, it will come down to plea bargaining. Disappointing. Too bad it didn't rain away the evidence (even though it was caught on camera).

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/jeff-olson-californ...

This really is my only gripe. I can actually understand the reason why it would be considered vandalism, but the purpose of the case I think is to oppress the message he was sending (he pissed off the bank obviously...that's where I'm happy). This is why we have rights to protests, even though it is chalk, if everyone did it, it still is graffiti.

Careful, HN is drug to many of us coders, proof is in the account settings with the maxvistis and mintimeaway settings.

I remember reading that when Google launched fiber, it wasn't looking to become a provider, but more so to push the industry due to the US being behind in speed. If more areas have faster speeds and are affordable, then products like Google Drive and YouTube (4K HD videos) will thrive. Basically, Google is hedging it's future, by pushing the industry.

Realize one thing, you are your biggest investor, if you don't invest in your self (the time in your own passion), then no one else will.

Not to appear overly optimistic, but there is alot of money and opportunity out there...put your name on it.

Firefox 21 and 22 support streaming MP4 in HTML5.

EDIT: I just checked out what you mean, since Sift utilizes Javascript code for their api call to determine risk, I agree with you...it would render their pattern check ineffective for the Javascript api integration...they need to run server side code, which Sift offers in their REST API.

Right now, I'm forced to work on Brightscript.