dkopi

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Not really. Every country that has weapons development also has export controls.

It isn't about believing your government is moral or good. Its about understanding that your government is responsible for the safety of citizens, and that your enemies will want to kill you (or at least kill your soldiers).

dkopi

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Not really. Military grade weapons are a big deal. They're used to kill people.

Export controls are there to prevent killing machines getting in the hands of a countries enemies (or potential enemies in the future)

dkopi

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If you support export controls for security reasons, this is kind of inevitable.

The government shouldn't be forced to buy any type of military technology someone creates. But even if the government won't buy your tech, it still can be dangerous in the hands of other countries.

One could argue that if the government is preventing you from selling your tech abroad - there should be some sort of compensation for this. Others could argue that's just the cost of being in the business of weapons manufacturing.

dkopi

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There's nothing unlibertarian about a private business making up its own terms of services and privately enforcing them. That's exactly how the free market self regulates without the use of force.

dkopi

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Twitter isn't sinking. It just isn't ascending as fast as investors would like to ensure hyper growth.

While its always great for your career to be in a company that's constantly growing - sometimes being that person that can help the company do a lot more with less resources is even better for your career. When everyone's jumping ship - the people who choose to stay on-board can often be very rewarded as far as their career growth goes.

dkopi

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Not sure DDOS clauses are that unreasonable. Especially when attackers might be targeting your DNS server, even though you're the target.

dkopi

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This often happens when I'm travelling internationally. If I plan on buying a local sim card instead of purchasing a roaming plan - I might not have access to my SMS until I get back home.

dkopi

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Great point. "correct horse battery staple" wouldn't be vulnerable to such an attack.

dkopi

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Mistakes were made, and there are definitely lessons to be learned, but if we want to improve the state of security, we really need to change the way we react to these types of bugs.

If a service has an outage and a company posts a postmortem, we all think: "wow! that was an interesting bug, lets learn from this". We shouldn't be treating security issues differently.

People who make security mistakes aren't idiots. They aren't negligent. They're engineers just like us, who have tight deadlines, blindspots and mistakes. Shaming people and companies for security bugs will only cause less transparency and less sharing of information - making us all less secure.

This is a really cool bug. Kudos to the researcher for finding it, responsibly reporting it, and to paypal for fixing it in a timely fashion. Hopefully - this type of bug changes some internal processes and the way the company thinks about 2FA.

As for security questions - these are obviously insecure, and should really never be relied on. If you can opt out of security questions - do so. If you can't - just generate a random password as the answer. "I_ty/:QWuCllV?'6ILs`O12kl;d0-`1" is an excellent name for your first dog / high school. Just don't forget to use a password manager to store these.

dkopi

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More likely along the lines of

  if ((isset($_POST["SecurityQuestion0"]) && $_POST["SecurityQuestion0"] != $answer0) || 
  (isset($_POST["SecurityQuestion1"]) && $_POST["SecurityQuestion1"] != $answer1)

dkopi

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If you're breaking your contract, that's something to be enforced by your landlord and the courts. Not something you need special laws to forbid.

dkopi

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Based on the "you can still rent a bedroom" comments, I'm guessing the people commenting here are single and definitely don't have kids.

dkopi

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Is it really a Chicken and egg situation? SF prices in the last years have skyrocketed, through out the city. The financial incentive to build is there. But there isn't massive building of new housing. That isn't because of the lack of subways. It's because of zoning laws and building regulations.

dkopi

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Subways make sense in dense urban areas - When a lot of people are within walking distance from the subway station.

For SF to justify extensive subway infrastructure, it needs to start building higher density neighborhoods.

dkopi

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Which part do you consider an opening act of a cold war? Launching a cyber attack in a foreign country - or arresting someone who launched a cyber attack?

dkopi

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Personally, I find the Whatsapp web version pretty convenient for long-form text

dkopi

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The weakest link I can identify here is MITM attacks when you're sending the link.

Imagine:

  Alice generates a link. 
  Sends the link to Bob over an unencrypted/unauthenticated link.
  Mallory intercepts the link. Generates his own link and send that link to bob.
  Bob enters the confidential information on Mallory's link.
  Mallory sees the confidential information, and then sends it to Alice's original link.

The only way to prevent this type of attack is sending the link over a secure channel. But if you already have a secure channel - what's the use case?

dkopi

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"It's showing the extreme (clearly unacceptable) end of the spectrum to ask someone how they decide where to draw the line."

That's actually very lazy. It's shifting the burden of "drawing the line" on the other side.

It's the "well, why don't we just kill toddlers as well? Where do you draw the line?" in an abortion argument. It's the "why don't we just give 12 year old's automatic assault weapons" or "why don't we disarm the police and military as well" in a gun control debate. It's the "So why don't we just tax corporations 100% of their income" in a corporate tax debate.

dkopi

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Comparing political candidates to Hitler is a rather lazy thought experiment.

dkopi

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I agree with the first part, it's kind of a self reinforcing decision. Intel wanted INT 3 to be for break points so they gave it a single byte instruction, and because INT 3 is a single byte instruction - it's the only one that makes sense for debug breakpoints.

Lets say you have a lot of single byte opcodes:

  40 INC EAX
  43 INC EBX
  41 INC ECX
  C3 RET

And you want to set a breakpoint on INC EAX. If you replace "40" with "CD03" - you'll overwrite INC EBX as well. That can cause your program to crash if there are control flows that end up jumping to INC EBX without going through INC EAX first.

That's the main reason why 0xCD, 0x03 isn't used.

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