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shayanjm

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Shayan Mohanty @shayanjm shayan.mohanty@gmail.com

Current: Head of AI Research @ Thoughtworks

Previous: Co-Founder, CEO @ Watchful.io (Acq. $TWKS) Data/AI Eng @ FB, several other startups

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shayanjm··on Monitor PasteBin for Your Email or Passwords
Then feel free to fork and set up your own instance (hence, why I open sourced it), or use canary.pw to search through archives.
shayanjm··on Monitor PasteBin for Your Email or Passwords
I ran into that issue myself. Pastebin throttling is real. I was playing around with the idea of actually using the socks5 proxies gathered through scraping in order to retain modularity (and eliminate the necessity of multi-IP set ups which could easily get pricey).

It would be tough because I would have to check the health of each proxy prior to use (so that I don't miss out on request windows), but still an interesting concept to consider.

shayanjm··on Monitor PasteBin for Your Email or Passwords
Conceptually, the same thing. Only difference is I abstracted my project as a SaaS (that took forever) so you didn't _have_ to run your own instance.

Also, I wrote mine in Node (scrape parsing & RESTful APIs just SCREAM async), while dumpmon is written in Python

shayanjm··on Monitor PasteBin for Your Email or Passwords
That's an awesome project. Have you open sourced it?

Also, just to draw the distinction: Pasteye is for near-realtime monitor notifications, and it seems like Canarypw is more like an archival search.

shayanjm··on Monitor PasteBin for Your Email or Passwords
This is meant to be deployed as a SaaS (hence, why there are user management features included). There are two possible scenarios here:

#1 - Hacker breaks into your production server and steals your config files

#2 - Hacker breaks into your dev computer and steals your config files

If either of these things happen, I think you have a bigger security issue than any you might find on Pasteye.

shayanjm··on Monitor PasteBin for Your Email or Passwords
Creator of the project here. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into it
shayanjm··on Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days
Thank you so much for this. The pictures are beautiful, and I've used them to spiffy-up my medium profile. Just published a post with one of them as the header in "IMHO".

Again, really great work, and thank you again.

shayanjm··on Show HN: My girlfriend's startup
Banner image doesn't stretch on Chrome + retina display. http://puu.sh/2upQE
shayanjm··on Ask HN: Is this site stolen, or original?
Definitely the link that I was referring to. It's perfect, thank you so much!
shayanjm··on Ask HN: Please critique my idea/non-profit startup
I think I'll implement the drop shadow on the next iteration (next few hours). Thanks for the input!
shayanjm··on Ask HN: Please critique my idea/non-profit startup
Re-deployed the site @ http://www.founder-school.org/

Included your suggestions. Thank you again!

shayanjm··on Ask HN: Please critique my idea/non-profit startup
Thanks!
shayanjm··on Ask HN: Please critique my idea/non-profit startup
Excellent suggestions! I'm going to go ahead and add them to the next iteration which I'll deploy in about an hour. I'll re-comment here when they're ready.
shayanjm··on Ask HN: Please critique my idea/non-profit startup
The platform will constantly curate the list of courses "suggested" for you, as you rate courses you take. Courses will be built to be fully interactive and all encompassing (not just coding/development oriented. Ideally, you will be able to take an interactive course on anything). The courses will also be built in a similar fashion to that of Codecademy - where they're short and highly addictive. To populate our course list, we'll be developing a "course builder" of sorts - where any user can easily build a course. Course curation will be taken care of by the platform.

In the future, we would like to be able to launch programs at high schools in the form of "clubs". The goal would be to teach high school students how to take an idea, flesh it out, and build it into a small cashflow positive startup. Fundraising dates would be set throughout the school year for these "micro startups" to contribute towards a club-wide minimum goal of $x,xxx raised by date z. All funds raised from these clubs would then go towards charity work in a third world country. All financials will be 100% transparent, and individual clubs would have the ability to see (visually) where their money is going and who its impacting. All micro-startups that donate over the minimum would compete for a spot on our leaderboard. Students in this program would get: A line on their resume stating they built a cashflow positive startup, went through a rigorous company-building program, and (if they made it to the leaderboard) a $10k scholarship recognizing them for their venture.

Any sort of direction, feature suggestion, etc. is greatly appreciated!

http://www.founder-school.org/

shayanjm··on Vulnerability in FB Camera App Allowed for MITM Account Hijacking over WiFi
Fixed the title - thanks for pointing that out.
shayanjm··on Show HN: A Non-Profit to help high school students build startups (LANDING PAGE)
This is fair. I agree, this is very premature, but I think we were just very excited with the fact that we've reached a stage where publicity is our greatest ally. Since this is going to be a high-school powered organization, we figured it'd be best to have users who are interested in the idea "ready to go", that way there's no downtime between our live app and traction with schools.

I didn't mean to plug our startup with empty words, I just wanted to see what sort of traction could be garnered from these outlets. Early-adopters are the backbone of any startup, for-profit or not-for-profit.

shayanjm··on NSA Chief: China Behind RSA Attacks
In a large portion of these attacks, the attackers are using some form of modified SpyEye/ZeuS botnet source with a pre-loaded 0day (adobe products are the target of choice since they seem to have a vuln discovery a week). Honestly, regardless of how you slice this - with a solid Social-Engineering backend, this is a very difficult problem to deal with/defend against regardless of the securities in place.

However, I will say this: I really do think it's in a company's best interests to dabble in the blackhat security markets a bit as a bystander. You can watch the development of some VERY interesting 0days, botnets, and other such goodies from an in depth perspective. That way, you can protect your mission-critical assets from the latest and greatest vulnerability before it trickles through to vulnerability notifier services.

shayanjm··on Death of a Data Haven (the story of Sealand)
As it's been said before, if the government (especially the US government) wants you - they're going to get you. For the most part, even servers in third world nations (where it would be perfectly legal to host whatever you're hosting) would still buckle under the pressure of a US-3rd world standoff. Your best bet is proliferating your assets to multiple areas.

Actually The Pirate Bay had an interesting idea about this. They are planning on launching their servers high up into the atmosphere. An elegant solution imo.

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