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laurenceputra
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Comment #5317778
GIL? I've found that a single thread is slower than not running a thread at all.
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Comment #4722486
4chan with facebook login?
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Comment #4583968
yea, you are now aware of the mass assignment bugs, but what about previously? even github got affected by it. are you saying that they are incompetent? what about bugs that have y…
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Comment #4580947
And again, I am not doubting your competence. What I am saying is that we are all humans. Google might have hired the best computer scientists around the world but they still got h…
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Comment #4580750
i'm not assuming you are incompetent. what i'm saying is that no system is fully secure, and by saving the users' passwords, you are risking them. one of the first rules i learnt i…
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Comment #4580270
so you do concede that it can get ugly really fast.
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Comment #4580263
and by storing the passwords, they are putting their users at risk. and we are in an era where email security means more than anything. it means access to all your services. they s…
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Comment #4580229
how does it not apply?
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Comment #4580224
what they could have done is to allow users to autoforward their emails over to their servers or something. not impossible, but i'm not their employee and i'm not responsible for t…
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Comment #4580212
in fact, seeing how your account was created to post that comment and seeing how it doesn't make sense, i would suspect that you actually work for them.
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Comment #4580209
they can't, unless the email service gives them oauth. and even then allowing a 3rd party to backup your emails is a very dangerous thing to do. they say that credit card is more d…
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Comment #4580151
I'm the author. 1) The app downloads your emails into their server. 2) Yes, they store that actual password. Which is ridiculous. 3) Yes, good for them for that, but still there ar…
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Comment #3533413
thanks, we have started to enforce it alr :)
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