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I don't know about "need", but it's certainly common to reach out to them... But that doesn't mean that they respond quickly. Google does not have a rep for reliably getting back t…

There's actually an entire genre here, sort of! The key is, you do not "rephrase texts". You get a court order REQUIRING all communications to go through an app that can be monitor…

I'm super hyped about this, I've been working on this for the last couple-few years and I'm optimistic about the return to being primarily an open-source thing.

No, it did not used to be that "all forums had pervasive doxxing and swatting". That has never been true. It has never been widespread. Heck, swatting as we know it today wasn't ev…

Okay, but consider that I might be better off with a machine that approves or disapproves based on credit history and credit score than a banker who won't lend to me unless I get m…

Someone pointed out an obvious one: You can open the file "/dev/mem" or equivalent on many Unix systems and break things horribly, and rust can't tell that you're doing it or stop …

You say it "comes off as part of an effort ... to mount another attack". Maybe it does to you, but I don't know why. I've never heard of this "fierce and dirty" competition between…

It's not hard to articulate why: Nearly all the large numbers are beyond what anyone can actually pay. If you assume that the bet pays out at most 4 billion dollars, and simply can…

Remember, crime is just surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model. But also remember, surprise pentesting with an ad hoc payment model is crime.

If you make concessions in a circumstance like this, you just have the same problem again in a few years. If doing this gets Putin anything at all that he wants, it will keep happe…

https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1498803126765191173 > hello i'm from the tech industry. today i'm going to explain how to solve all problems with whatever it is you do! ba…

It may be, but you may rest assured that when a recruiter asks me whether I'd like to work for Amazon, how they treat warehouse employees is going to be a factor in my answer. I've…

Do you think this applies in general to questions of legal liability, or is this one unique? If it's unique, why should anyone think that this case is unique? If you think in gener…

Lying is a reasonably fundamental part of research, but lying to humans can hurt them in various ways, and that's why we have human research ethics rules and standards that require…

The reason for this isn't "cowardice", though. I've read a lot of things by practicing people in the field on reasons for which they don't think human challenge trials produce reli…

As a person who has watched this kind of thing happen a lot: I think a lot . I had a bunch of friends on tumblr who wrote and exchanged very similar fiction and art. The ones who w…

Due process for calling someone to resign is deciding that you personally feel they should resign, and saying so. If you don't see a difference between the things called "cancel cu…

There is a big difference between what's reasonable and acceptable in random people and what's reasonable and acceptable in people who are established or establishing themselves as…

I don't know about "particularly" famous but I know that I've talked to people whose family members were programmers who reacted with "wait you know SEEBS!?!" when they mentioned m…

Haha, wow. I totally forgot I wrote that one. When I wrote that I was unaware of some of the Sort Of Creepy stuff. I recognize that some of the allegedly creepy stuff is sorta misq…

That's a fascinating take, but I don't think it's particularly related to what actually happened. I wasn't toxic because of some Microsoft FUD, I was toxic because I was a teenager…

In the sense of a logical implication which follows with full logical necessity: it doesn't. In the sense of a likely reason for someone to draw an inference: Most people do not sp…

I think it would make more sense to make this opt-in. For instance, I set my profile not to be displayed a while back, but when I checked on this new thing, it was set to make at l…

Google did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave …

I think the 5th one is harder because it has a lot of reliance on recognizing a specific syntax for key/value stores, and may rely on realizing that a key/value store can have anot…