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asdfthrowawayyyon The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told

Wired is completely full of shit, just like EFF. FBI fronts, nothing but lightning rod ops.

RSA SecureID has been compromised for decades, way before this puff piece of sensationalist sell newspapers bit.

asdfthrowawayyyon The full story of the RSA hack can finally be told

asdfthrowawayyyon Rectal Breathing with Perfluorocarbons

Yeah and when Brazil attempted to advocate rectal O3 insuflation to increase O2 uptake for COVID-19 treatment, the entire planet made quack jokes about it. https://brazilian.report/liveblog/coronavirus/2020/08/05/hea...

asdfthrowawayyyon Hacker Accessed AWS for $50k+ – AWS Ignoring Me

Economy of scale is an indispensable aspect of any competent engineering effort. Any reasonably adept AWS engineer would always include cost considerations for any change to AWS backend architecture, including helping the client decide which service tier makes the most sense for a particular application's use case...

asdfthrowawayyyon Hacker Accessed AWS for $50k+ – AWS Ignoring Me

Nonsense, AWS is an industry leader in use of the asterisk. With exception to perhaps S3 and AWS Lambda, the predominant majority of AWS services are cloaked with accounting legalese and hidden billing gotchas that can easily result in a several thousand dollar bill within days if you don't analyze every aspect of AWS service offerings including their EULAs and acceptable use policies.

So yes, it was bad form for OP to not establish billing alerts, but you can't in any way say that AWS is transparent about most aspects of their service tiers.

asdfthrowawayyyon Hacker Accessed AWS for $50k+ – AWS Ignoring Me

AWS support completely sucks unless you are paying 10K+ per month for the enterprise support tier.

My average ticket response with paid AWS Developer is probably 72+ hours, and that's just for the initial triage what's up query.

Unless you are either a seasoned Linux developer with many years of Linux internals experience, or you have an enterprise level account, all of the lower class AWS support rungs are largely meaningless.

asdfthrowawayyyon FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol

Because that's legal. Totally acceptable under the U.S. Constitution /s

asdfthrowawayyyon NSA Recommends How Enterprises Can Securely Adopt Encrypted DNS

Bunch of garbage, NSA and FBI hate ESNI.

Firefox silently pulled all production ESNI code as of v83 without a word of warning to anyone. As in, the Firefox development team simply killed encrypted SNI and told nobody that may have been using ESNI in despot regimes, in exchange for future ECH support which is not implemented anywhere yet.

Nor will ECH be endpoint supported any time soon.