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Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Post by t34543 »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #82
Totoradio wrote: post #72

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I don't see how this could happen at Tutanota

From https://tutanota.com/faq "Your private key is encrypted with your password. This way your login password receives the status of the private key." "Your password is never transmitted to the server in plain text. It is salted and then hashed with bcrypt locally on your device so that neither the server nor we have access to your password." What's stopping them (or being commandeered) to serve you modified javascri…

Client side hashing + SRI

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Post by Dylan16807 »

smt88 wrote: post #81
Dylan16807 wrote: post #58

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You removed some of the most important parts. The word "engineer" is critical to the first sentence, and your version has no translation of "banal, lascivious panopticon". The roundabout structure of the sentences is much more relevant than the use of a big word or two.

You got me. It wasn't a 100% faithful translation. I removed "engineer" because it's not necessary to the broader premise that more highly skilled people tend to be both more trusted in our society and more likely to know how to get away with a crime. I didn't translate "banal, lascivious panopticon" because it was it's one of those faux-profound images that adds very little. It's hardly revelatory to tell HN readers…

> because it was it's one of those faux-profound images that adds very little

That's a very strange interpretation to me. It doesn't look at all profound or faux-profound to me, it's just imagery.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Post by UncleMeat »

irrational wrote: post #35
ping_pong wrote: post #22

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Agreed, Google Finance is garbage. I talked with a Google recruiter and asked if there were any positions at Google Finance, and she thought I meant in the Finance department, not on that particular site. There's so much that can be done with it, and Google has abandoned it.

When will I stop being even slightly surprised that Google has abandoned yet another one of it's sites?

It's not abandoned. They did a redesign that power users don't like.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Post by [deleted] »

dehrmann wrote: post #25
ycombonator wrote: post #11

I had a YouTube employee login to my account, defaced my video titles and description. And Google wouldn’t do a thing about it. Don’t trust FAANGs and other ‘wangs’ with your private content !

I'm starting am engineering job at a FAANG in a few weeks. They already had me sign something agreeing to not do anything with the data of someone I know in the course of my work, told me access is monitored, not to make actual changes to people's accounts because hacking isn't distinguishable from admin changes by users, if something accidentally happens, notify a specific group so they can reach out to the user. It…

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Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Post by mikeyouse »

eshyong wrote: post #29
mikeyouse wrote: post #20

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The fall of Google finance is astounding. You can go to https://finance.google.com and search for "Slack" with no results. You can search for "WORK" (Slack's stock symbol) with no results. You have to actually type "NYSE:Work" to have it show up in the search results. It's astonishing.

I was able to see it in autocomplete, so that's something: https://imgur.com/a/dJFuNqW You are right that simply typing "work" and hitting enter returns no results, though.

Surely they could just list the autocomplete suggestions as search results though, no? Why is it so incredibly broken?

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Post by PavlovsCat »

smt88 wrote: post #86
PavlovsCat wrote: post #85

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English isn't even my first language, so if I have no problem parsing that, it's possible. Even if something is "unnecessarily" complex, what necessitates knee-jerk responses or downvotes?

> so if I have no problem parsing that, it's possible That's still assuming your interpretation was what the writer intended. As a native English speaker, I can tell you that it's not 100% clear. > what necessitates knee-jerk responses or downvotes? The meaning of a down vote is not defined by HN itself, so it's personal. For me, I use it based on value. I up-vote comments that add to or improve the discussion. I dow…

> That's still assuming your interpretation was what the writer intended. As a native English speaker, I can tell you that it's not 100% clear.

I think your your summary of the comment doesn't really match the comment.

Re: Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images

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Post by sincerely »

sizzle wrote: post #37
sincerely wrote: post #9

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Working for Pentagram seems sweet. Huge cool designer cachet despite the fact that all you do is redesign logos and branding for incredibly uncool legacy corporations

Sounds like the description of a miserable circle of hell from Dante's inferno for me.

Clock in, clock out ;)
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