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Pretty weird since in the original language it just means Struggle. Cleaner connotation than the western equivalent 'Crusade' which is used secularly all the time tbh.
It's simply a matter of how many people are affected by jihad vs crusade in the last few decades. This is the first time I'm seeing jihad used in something not associated with terrorism.
Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
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Re: Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
#62What harm can be done to me, as an uber user that has their cc data in the uber system by this? Is my credit card information compromised in a way that allows attackers stealing my money?
Potentially yes, very likely yes it seems.
Re: Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
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That's true. But like the parent poster, I'm likewise glad I had avoided using them. What I hated about Uber and why I never ended up using it was that their app wanted so much info from my phone for no discernibly good reason. And Lyft didn't seem to be much better. I just wanted a ride man, I didn't want a 500 MB app that sucked all the data out of my phone and sent it to god knows where. So I've just ended up call…
500MB? On what platform?
And in the apple appstore it says 363MB size.
I don't know if apple calculates the unpacked and installed size or if it is the "download size" too.
Re: Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
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I did too, don't they also have a picture of your ID they took when you signed up, for "verification purposes"?
Yes they have a picture of my ID. They have quite a big of info about me since did a background check
Re: Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
#65> [From the end of the article] Lawyers for Mr. Sullivan have argued that other employees were responsible for regulatory disclosures and said the company had scapegoated Mr. Sullivan. Unless and until CEOs are held personally responsible for such security breaches there will be no solution to the problem. A Chief Security Officer job looks more and more as a designated scape-goat for hire.
It is an idea I hear often, but I don't think it will solve anything. The CEO will be the scapegoat, and may get paid better for the risk taken. So having a CEO scapegoat or a CSO scapegoat, same thing. You have to realize that a CEO is just an employee. An important employee, but like any other employee, he is paid to do a job, and can be fired if his employers are not satisfied with his work. If we want to punish t…
Re: Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
#66What harm can be done to me, as an uber user that has their cc data in the uber system by this? Is my credit card information compromised in a way that allows attackers stealing my money?
Re: Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes they have a picture of my ID. They have quite a big of info about me since did a background check
This is why you should watermark any ID images with something like "FOR UBER USE ONLY SEPTEMBER 2022" in a wavy distorted font.
Re: Ask HN: Have you taken action regarding the Uber hack?
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Slack had it already in 2015...
No, I meant that the systematic elimination of the use of Slack is my next holy war/crusade/jihad objective after coming solving the mfa problem. (Team communications should be e2ee, with no external party having access; for group chats up 10-20 that's viable; beyond that, company-encrypted to keys held by the company only.)
1 - https://slack.com/help/articles/360019110974-Slack-Enterpris...