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Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data

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Post by astura » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 5:29 PM UTC

aepiepaey wrote: post #28

astura wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not a "necessity," it's a personal preference. I started out programming on a dark theme (the emacs default) but I've used a light theme professionally for about 15 years (and no other dark applications). I prefer the light theme and I don't find it hard on my eyes one bit and I have astigmatism.

The Emacs default is bright (black text on white background), not dark. The exception is if you're using it in a terminal, in which case it re-uses the terminal's colors.

Well, the emacs theme installed on our school computers was a dark theme. This was way back in the day.

Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data

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Post by coachkfs » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 7:24 PM UTC

kungfufrog wrote: post #4

The blog post was moderately informative/useful and interesting, marketing brochure website behind it next to useless and can't find anything meaningful about what they actually sell or do. Frustrating follow-up experience for me that reminds me of most enterprise ISVs.

If you want more than the marketing pages, there is a good set of "concept" courses available for free on ExtraHop's training site https://customer.training.extrahop.com/

Re: We busted a fake Chrome extension that was trying to steal data

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Sat, Dec 08, 2018, 8:47 PM UTC

cws wrote: post #29

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

As of this writing, the malicious "Postman" extension is still available in the Google Chrome extension store and has been downloaded over 27,000 times. This is pretty much par for the course, unfortunately.

I just searched for the fake Postman extension again and it appears to have been removed. Hurray!

It seems like trending a story on HN is the only way to get Google to remove malware, unfortunately.