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Comment It's about time. (Score 3, Insightful) 18

I'm 100% for this, as long as it works. The fact that shitty companies like Spokeo (or whoever) require you to register with them just so you can hope they delete the information they've collected on you is ridiculous. I work in a job field (healthcare) where some privacy is important because people really are batshit crazy and absolutely will stalk others. Having to try to figure out which website is selling my home address and personal contact information today shouldn't be this damn difficult, but here we are.

Comment Such potential for it too. (Score 1) 93

Microsoft had their change with Skype to integrate it into the Xbox Live world, add a camera, and absolutely dominate the space that we thought that FaceTime was going to rule.

They seemed *so close* but never quite got across the finish line with Skype. Now with so many other apps making data calls, it seems almost pointless., which is sad.

Comment Re: It'll backfire (Score 1) 213

> Sure, but even if that's true, that just means using Android is cutting out toxic people. Win/win.

It's true, but it's the opposite. The Android users tend to be *the* most toxic ones out there.

Obnoxious Android zealots are like the old Windows NT snobs.

Comment Re:This can happen to any online service (Score 1) 84

Careful when doing that, anybody stupid enough to still be using SORBS to the rules that the SORBS assholes have decided are best for the internet will ding you for that. Low TTL = spammer to them.

SORBS should have fucked off and died ages ago but it's still around, unfortunately.

Comment Re:This can happen to any online service (Score 1) 84

The bigger problem are the 600lb gorillas like Google and Gmail, who *might* bless you with Inbox deliverability to gmail customers.

Google has scooped up an absolutely massive amount of email traffic over the years, unfortunately.

At least with providers like MSN/Hotmail/etc you can request an IP whitelist. Google has no such friendliness and you just have to send emails to gmail friends and have them go in and mark "not spam." It's frustrating and was a huge huge problem for me when I had to move to a new IP.

Comment Re:Relativity (Score 5, Insightful) 385

A perfect solution would be the ability to subscribe to a moderator that aligns with your interpretation of the rules. Any posts he purges are purged for all his subscribers. This also means if he becomes "corrupt" you can put him out of sight and out of mind with the click of a button.

I'd ask perfect for whom? That sounds like a perfect echo chamber, which while pleasing to the ear is not healthy. Imagine as a thought experiment a teacher that only ever gave lessons that pleased their pupils. I'd still be playing with the giant wooden blocks from Kindergarten... I wonder if Amazon sells those... I'll be... NO CARRIER

Comment Re:Alter world relationship to surveillance foreve (Score 5, Interesting) 99

> I'm sorry to disappoint you Edward, but nothing's changed.

I have to respectfully disagree - setting aside any personal political views on Mr Snowden, as someone who's been inside infosec for years, encryption has become a Thing in the wake of the disclosures. Consider a project to encrypt all the data flows INSIDE your datacenter. Prior to the Snowden leaks, that's have been a non-starter in most large firms: "Dear Board of Directors, please approve this multimillion dollar project that provides no user-visible benefits, is only really advocated by a few cypto-geeks and is only hypothetically going to protect us from some un-proven risks - Signed the tinfoil hat brigade"

Now if you're selling serious product to a listed publicly traded company, encryption WILL be on the list of questions their security department will be asking you prior to signing off on the purchase. Let's Encrypt is a thing now. Hell even the Feds want your internal data center network to be fully encrypted for Fedramp certification.

Remember the conversations about Zoom e2e encryption? Thank Snowden for those.

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Comment Re:Lol (Score 2) 114

Thing is, the ones that are there are quickly finding out that there is a LOT of competition, the stakes are way higher, people are wanting more product for the price, and due to the sheer volume of users that they aren't making anywhere near the money that they thought they were going to make.

OnlyFans "creators" have now resorted to spamming reddit like crazy, and setting up fake profiles on legit dating sites (like POF, Tinder, Match, Okcupid) to try to lure in followers. It's complete garbage. They're even spamming on Grindr & Fetlife.

Comment Re:The view from the other side of the desk (Score 1) 164

> What you are looking for I would imagine might be hard to fill

Ya, I work the operational security side of the fence. My teamâ(TM)s job is to implement real security (my bossâ(TM)s words, not mine) and watch the script kiddies and nationstates poke around the place and build the next set of walls.

I personally find it more rewarding then the bug bounty game, and way more ethical then the 0day weapon broker market. But I agree its not a universal mindset. I find redteam to be too easy. They gotta get lucky/good once. My team has to be good all the time. I get paid well, and my job enjoyment more then covers the difference between well and indecently :).

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