quackerhacker

While I understand write offs when it comes to a business for costs of doing business, there are FREE alternatives (like ubuntu) that the IRS could use. I'm not anti-Microsoft (in fact I'm deving an app for windows phone right now), but seems to me that whoever is managing the IRS' budget are idiots, and their decisions really need to be audited.

Props on making the Trianglify object so clean.

I doubt it. When I went away for hacking, mine was a camp, but I made 2 products in couple weeks right when I got out. It'll be interesting to see him hit the ground running (on a full system) and too see what he'll make...I coded on a (new at the time) iPhone 4 ;)

I used to upload gaming videos (moments/montages) to youtube. The share feature is nice on PS4 and Xbox one, although the reason for my comment is I quit uploading, because I always received copyright notices from YouTube, and even if I won an appeal...it still lead to copyright notices AGAIN later. Aside from the notices, my friends and I were monitoring through Adsense, after the notices would happen, I'd noticed that earned adsense revenue would be subtracted from FINALIZED earnings. I wrote a blog about this out of anger [1].

Anyways, the reason I stopped uploading was, because to actually get views and subscribers, editors need to....edit....their videos. Although when I uploaded, it taught me how to edit and compress videos, I realized I was editing and reviewing footage a lot more than playing.

[1] https://medium.com/p/6caf19d2c542

I see in the near future a folder named "commands," on your iPhone filled with long name apps just for automation. Are you using https or some type of SSH keys to authenticate?

I know you said your running wired instead of wireless, but it sounds like you have to run some type of lightweight server to listen to the http requests. I guess you could just port forward/trigger internally through the router.

I was trying to figure out how he had the key logger sending out it's packets.

Even if the target set his computer to auto-update (or something that did not require admin authentication), wouldn't he have some type of notion that something went wrong during his update?

With the target being an InfoSec guy, I would've imagined he would at least be running some type of network monitoring, like wireshark or little snitch, ESP on his personal computer. Wouldn't he have to authorize the outgoing packets?

Sorry, if I come off analytical to the story...it's a great read...I just want to make sure my networks are locked down. I've even went as far as dedicated networks for my server and home usage, and preventing internal ip addresses from communicating to each other (sucks for airplay).

Who was sleeping at the wheel when Xbox didn't add empty strings to password verification checks?

The gaming feature is a game changer for the price point $99. Although I know ouya, was around this price, Amazon has the prime market to compete with the likes of Google Play, and Apple iTunes.

I don't think she got her money back, it may be held, but the method in which she got her domain back involved money transfer. The FBI, was really just sprinkled in the article. I understand the shock in how they handled the case immediately taking statements, but the resolution she had involved her money to get her domain back.

I brought this up to one of my instructors before and he said that comment overhead is negligeble on bandwidth (I was referring to css and js commenting at the time), but I don't think that's true when you factor in mobile networks and when some teams comment every freaking line when naming convention and common sense should suffice.

So I guess her suggestion is to have $30k stashed to make up for lack of security. From what I read...she's still out money, even though she did get her domain back.

I have Network Solutions, KVC Hosting, and have tried 1and1, but all of them...from a security standpoint...are lackadaisical when it comes to security.

Network solutions WANTS their clients to bundle userid's into 1 account...that makes it easy.

KVC, I emailed them to update my domain contact info, then I transferred one of my domains out with that new email.

I never did any test with 1and1...but then again the 2 above (with kvc and netsol) weren't even tests.

Another security breach involving GoDaddy(1)?

(1): Naoki lost his twitter (https://medium.com/cyber-security/24eb09e026dd)

The gamble is that you will not be the last idiot to invest (the last person/group is the loser). Basically the first people give their money to 1 address. The group that follows pays the first their 20% return (+ the operator's 5% fee it looks like).

Where in a regular (regulated) scenario, your investment would be paid back by the company's sales, profits, liquidity, assets, ect. The people who participate in this gamble that they are not the last to invest (and that the operator pays out), because the "return," is dependent on the next following "investor."

I can strongly relate with the programmer. With the wealth of knowledge that I as a coder possess, it is still disappointing when I constantly crunch numbers, design a structure, or spend what feels like an eternity on a project, only to be stuck on a simple fix.

I envy the ignorant seriously and those who can accept things for face value. I over analyze everything and am critical of anything. One of the sweet blisses I have is to read HN to take a mental break from coding.

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The simple fact that Google can get paid for a service that only helps them further their profiling and profitability in ads and Chrome OS is more reason for them to offer the service.

I don't question reliability. I question privacy, and until Dropbox makes their NSA agreement (which I remember reading they didn't)...Dropbox is my goto!

Food for thought, while lasers can focus a beam at a pilot, at air shows and in the air force, pilots usually have spotters that use a mirror and line of sight....so while I understand his sentence to be a deterrent by example, I DON'T agree with harsh sentences for non-violent crimes.

Not a bad idea with the masking tape, guess a magnet would work too.

My recommendation, I repair devices all the time now, after you remove all the little screws and the piece you need (like a motherboard or pcb), take the time and put every screw in the hole it came out of. Trick I learned as a mechanic. It helps prevents losing them and guessing, since sometimes screw threads and height vary.

What I find concerning is his lawyer's argument, "Brown did not 'transfer' the stolen information as he arguably would have done had he embedded the link on his web page" ... does this mean for us webmasters, linking to a webpage (even as Google or Bing may do) would mean incrimination. I understanding hosting....but linking!!! WTF!

I love to see new implementations in gaming, I feel the gaming industry really cultivated me as a hacker, and Pokemon was my first hack....anyone remember getting "Missing No."

1. prove they have the evidence.

or

2. prove they destroyed or concealed it.

Greatest quote I've ever heard: "it's not what they know, it's what they can prove in court"

If they do open source the code, I strongly hope that webmasters would actually replace obtrusive ads with the mining protocol and not just add it in addition to ad revenue.

Although, I can't see the fair use law protecting them once they begin to charge, creating this amount of buzz as an initial marketing plan...and possibly changing the business name later, if that's the plan, ingenious. Great allocation of marketing capital.