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This is news to me. Was the customer list also stolen? Specifically, customer records linked to individual vaults? My concern with anyone identifying themselves as being affected b…

They are owned by LogMeIn, which is a pretty shady company in my book (not malicious necessarily, but not transparent).

Please stop commenting whether you are a LastPass user or not. Some of your profiles on HN have an email address and in general all your comments are public so can be mined, plus "…

> That consent was granted the day they accepted/sent the friend request. [...] They can do with that information as they please, which includes giving it to a 3rd party. Hm - no. …

> While I don't know what the prompt exactly said, I bet it was specific enough. An informed consent from users who's information is going to be collected. In this case it was the …

The main perpetrator in this case - Alexandr Kogan (now Spectre) - is now a tech entrepreneur leading a company with an investment from a US-based accelerator 43 North. That's how …

I am not buying this. It's borderline victim-blaming. An informed consent must be required. Giving access to an app is not the same as sharing your password with them and explicitl…

Semantic Web 3.0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

I might be remembering the details wrong, but wasn't the main issue that users half-knowingly allowed spying on their friends without any consent required from those friends? Open …

I might be wrong, but I always lean towards this being the result of prioritization. Most engineers know the difference but prioritize other aspects than ethical. I am not even jud…

Because looking back at the decades of your work while being retired is just a sweet ethical exercise with very few direct personal and financial consequences. If you are an engine…

No, probably just special treatment: https://twitter.com/whalechart/status/1606293657518080001

Intentional in the sense that you understand that you are exaggerating and still repeatedly do it. No one is calling for him to be flogged or beheaded in front of the White House. …

Honestly, that's not a great example. Re-evaluating your ethical impact on the world is not the same as understanding the direct consequences of your daily work. Both are important…

So then who is the abuser? The users and the developers are the victims. PMs are likely also the victims of their higher-ups, their higher-ups are the victims of the CEO, the CEO i…

There is an argument to be made that these… micro services were a part of a bigger offering from Google. Maybe by itself Reader wasn’t a billion dollar business, but together with …

The comment you are replying to did not say that he should be denied bail. Only that the rules should apply to him too. 10% is the most common requirement, he didn't meet it.

I would guess that there are so many Stanford-affiliated people and so few properties on the market that this fact is not a limiting one.

People are upset that he is getting special treatment. Again. He doesn't deserve it.

You are intentionally exaggerating this situation. People are calling for him to be jailed — a perfectly reasonable call.

Obviously in terms of the overall contents they are not the same - even eventually. Alcohol contents can be the same but the rest of the drink can not be discarded from the equatio…

You have most likely done that already… but have you tried many different kinds of alcoholic drinks? Beer affects me exactly as you describe it so I almost never drink it. Single m…

I can't tell if you are trolling or are serious. Neither Opera nor Vivaldi have succeeded as social media platforms. They experiment a lot with different features but remain a minu…

You are misunderstanding federalization. People can migrate their account and social graph to a different instance _only_ if the current instance allows them to do that. If you are…

I imagine the reason they are so keen to be a player in social media is because someone at Mozilla really pushes the idea that there is a community around Firefox (sure, Thunderbir…