Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — monsur

monsur

HN member
Joined
Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 12:51 PM UTC
HN karma
52
Public activity
19 items

About monsur

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #7760765

    Hang on. The first step of this exploit is that "The attacker logs into the victims account on a 2FA enabled web application". How does the attacker do this if the account has 2FA …

  2. story
  3. story
  4. comment
    Comment #5615545

    This is absolutely right. We are drowning in an tidal wave of books/articles to read, videos to watch, podcasts to listen to etc. Trying to keep up is a fools' errand we must admit…

  5. comment
    Comment #5597506

    Naming aside, I think there is some value in a fluent, cross-language methodology for making HTTP requests. While each library adheres to the conventions of its specific language, …

  6. story
  7. comment
    Comment #5597326

    I'm curious to see whether technologies like BitTorrent Sync (and similar products like Space Monkey) gain traction. One cannot deny the importance of backups, especially as we beg…

  8. comment
    Comment #5596953

    I prefer jwz's "How will this software get my users laid?" http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

  9. comment
    Comment #5445075

    This is precisely why I like Fever as an RSS reader. Fever lets you separate feeds into low-volume kindling and high-volume sparks. Kindling are the feeds you want to keep up with …

  10. comment
    Comment #5424280

    It is refreshing to read the perspective of how a non-techie views Google and tech. It's a viewpoint that's important to remember.

  11. comment
    Comment #5141779

    I have to agree. There is no evidence of what particular attack vectors lead to this exploit. His conclusion are unsubstantiated blanket suggestions.

  12. comment
    Comment #4927154

    Nice article, but what's going on with the screenshots on that page? They are greater than 1MB, 02-fonts.png is +5MB and still loading.

  13. comment
    Comment #4634974

    Verizon is not the only one who does this. I've seen the same from AT&T and Chase. I'm sure the list of companies that do this is very long.

  14. comment
    Comment #4584332

    I want to shout it from the rooftops: Dear Internet, stop telling me to make stuff! Stop telling me to do things! This whole "cog in the machine" notion is a myth. The world is fas…

  15. story
  16. comment
    Comment #4436630

    This is really a shame because these companies are making a shitload of money.

  17. story
  18. comment
    Comment #3668947

    And its an Archers of Loaf song, nice!

  19. comment
    Comment #3498831

    What about consuming Hollywood movies through legal, online means such as Amazon.com video? You'd still get to watch the movies while giving a vote to legal online streaming.