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mhellmic··on Why Ratings Systems Don't Work
rewatchability should indicate a light-weight movie. If you want that, you look at rewatchability, if you want something more complex, you use quality. I think this is the underlying assumption.
mhellmic··on Show HN: passwd.io - a no frills no setup password store
What if you rely on the service to know all your password and you only know your key to the service .. and then somebody manages to take over your account (getting access to your mail address) and to delete all your data?

That would be not as bad as him knowing your passwords, but still inconvenient.

mhellmic··on You're wrong about LinkedIn, it's not the users, it's you
I would like to disagree on that:

"It's not really about MD5, SHA1 or BCrypt, (...) It wouldn't matter if the passwords were all in plaintext if they never got out."

It is also about the hashes, because a good security infrastructure should anticipate the possibility of a leak and still protect the users.

For that, you need to use the right encryption so that users don't have to change their passwords in the next days, but have 5+ years for that.

And yes, I see that you are promoting dedicated authentication services (which would do it right), it just looks strange to me there.

mhellmic··on German Pirate Party Scores Second State Victory
Just to be clear, the pirate party (with 7.4%) is in the parliament, not in the government. The government will most likely consist of a coalition of the parties CDU and SPD, so that the Pirates will be in the opposition.

I am sure you meant that, but it wasn't clear to me.