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> You set up an HTTP server that literally sends people the data when they request it. Don't do that if you don't want people to have the data. By the same argument I could say: If…

Would that large trial have shown the cancerous effect of smoking? If not, do you then agree that some possible adverse effects were not checked for and could have slipped through?…

Of course, all the generated code has to reviewed and vetted for by a senior developer. Of course, this has to be re-done every now and then when new classes of vulnerabilities app…

Hand in your paper when you’re on vacation or even better on a conference in Europe. GDPR will apply. Of course it will take so long that you won’t benefit from a decision for your…

While there was some intent to cause harm their attempts were amateurish. The actual damage was done by the agent setting up aws infrastructure not on the demands of the owner.

Ideally, you submit your own project as https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Yes, there are also many other lucrative illegal activities.

> The cleanest mitigation is to return results in a canonical order, such as lexicographic sorting. And hope that the sorting time cannot be used as a side channel.

I agree it’s awkward. But I don’t find it creepy per se. It was a tradeoff to which all parties consented. In one case there was just that one room available stranded in the middle…

Example Finland. Could you end up in a nude Sauna with your superior? Yes, especially if it is same sex. Example Germany. Which law would be broken? Internal compliance rules, yes,…

HN guidelines say: Assume good faith. We should apply it to Sheryl here as well. In Europe several of my acquaintances shared a bed with their professors/superior for various non-s…

As you would expect from a state press release, not a tabloid publication.

The 4% rule is considered safe for a 30 year retirement period. So at 50 you might want to withdraw a little less.

Somehow this code lacks the magic I‘m used from rails: class BooksController Only the title is specific to the show method. Home should be set by the application controller and Boo…

Layer8 DID the thing though, skimmed through the code and thought about security issues.

The requested feature is more like list-unsubscribe headers for mailing lists[1]. Instead of categorizing the mail as spam (blocking) you send a clean unsubscribe back to the sende…

Yes, you could use union. But then you have to pad the columns of the other tables with NULLs to arrive at the same output and carefully count. And we all hate counting.

You might even split them so that k out of n trusted people are needed to restore them. For example https://shamir.securitytools.io/

A naive approach could still leak information through side channels. E.g. if you search regularly for foobar, the answer might suddenly get slower if foobar appears more in the doc…

Maybe thought provoking. But sad to read ai garbage. It’s easy to imagine a better world. But you also need to provide a way to reach it. For example a lot of things are wrong with…

Spock in the Wrath of Khan: “As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create.”

It’s like putting curl -sSL https://example.com/install.sh | sh In your action. For sure happens.

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