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> The security model of Bitcoin comes from proof of work This is not the security model, this is the consensus model. It's based on probabilistic finality, meaning that the probabi…

It wasn't shutdown for spam, and the service is not a spam service but an ant-spam service. The service has been sending out emails since about 2013. It only lets out a limited num…

LE does in fact follow the link and use the contacts there 99.999% of the time. The site has been running fine on OVH for nearly 5 years without problem.

Yes, I was under the impression that this is what they meant. It would have been great to be able to to chat so that I could learn more about how much this would cost, but as outli…

of course - create any website open to the public where they can message each other, and there will always be some abuse. It's unavoidable. But what can you do? You can't police th…

Admin of Guerrilla Mail here. I've been hosting the site on OVH since 2016. The site hasn't changed much during this time, and I've been quite happy with their services until now. …

Nowhere on the website it says that it's an anonymous email service provider - it was an anti-spam email solution first and foremost. In fact, the email sending feature prominently…

I'm also one of those who switched from PHP to Go and now I have quite a bit of legacy PHP code that just works and don't have time to rewrite. My solution: Use a Go FastCGI client…

Yep. Also, he had to be careful not to say anything that would suggest that having a monopoly in the OS market would somehow benefit the dominance of the content busniess, it seems…

Perhaps it the type of bug that only happens 497 days[1]? a few of these class of bugs slip through now and then (intiger overflow). 1. https://blog.ctm-it.com/it-support/blogs/mat…

Let's start that you've been visiting a website called "Hacker News". Explain that to the customs goons when they ask you what is it.

They did! Although not on the scale as the grand canal, but still impressive. Check out the "snowy mountains scheme", https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_Mountains_Scheme Quote: …

> They register again and again after the trial has expired This is great! You have users who are using your product, how could you not be happy? Find out why they are not converti…

Counterpoint: Software engineers can just make it a configuration option and leave it to the user to decide how it is run. Unlike civil engineers who can't build a bridge with a co…

Yep, it's a totally different culture. For example, there's a lot of motivation to protect the family's honor. The police will mediate between the parties before going further, and…

Well, there isn't such thing as 100B in cryptocurrency, so definitely not in crypto. (It would be very hard/impossible to acquire that amount right now). This brings us to an inter…

Oops, I see, was assuming it was used for MTA too! So there was never really a dedicated TLS port for MTA to begin with?

Yes, unfortunately you'd be losing email. Port 465 has been deprecated a while back (1997). I guess that's the problem - there is no practical way to disable plaintext email from t…

Yes - it's a weak argument, and one that's probably been debunked by looking the way https lifted off recently. My view is if port 465 was still around today, it would probably get…

The STARTTLS vulnerability to downgrade attacks is a significant downside that port 465 doesn't have (if using modern TLS protocols at least). My opinion is that perhaps the severi…

Perhaps fixing STARTTLS is one of those problems where the solution adds even more problems (and moving parts). BTW, what ever happened to SMTP on a dedicated TLS port (465)? Why d…