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Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

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Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

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Post by jdminhbg »

thom wrote: post #107
karlick88 wrote: post #11

While I am complete appalled by the data breach and hope that similar things never happens to anyone again I would like to propose a purely thought experiment: The hacker reported sold the nude photos of Jennifer lawrence for a mere sum of $130 using bitcoin. If we apply game theory here, these kind of data is very difficult to monetize. If you sell one copy of the data, it is then immediately distributed online for…

An almost Dawkins-esque level of tone-deafness.

It's important to not think about certain hypotheticals out loud, so that you can signal what kind of person you are.

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Post by yaeger »

fpgeek wrote: post #142

> 6. iCloud is the most popular target because Picture Roll backups are enabled > by default and iPhone is a popular platform. Windows Phone backups are > available on all devices but are disabled by default (it is frequently enabled, > although I couldn’t find a statistic) while Android backup is provided by > third party applications (some of which are targets). Fragmentation, for the (security) win! Not really, of…

Does Android really not provide an auto upload of snapped pictures to the cloud? I was under the impression that they did this way before iCloud even came up. First it was to Picasa or some place, then to the google+ place somewhere.

Either way, I don't even remember if the iCloud upload was default or not. When it was introduced I took an interest to find out how to deactivate that in case it was enabled by default. Don't remember if it was. All I know is, it is disabled on my device and it'll stay that way because I really didn't want to use this.

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

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Post by [deleted] »

blatherard wrote: post #145
Systemic33 wrote: post #64

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Just to be pedantic: By the same logic, Google is also grossly hosting tonnes of illegal material.

Google doesn't have moderators posting messages like "uh-oh your illegal content is being taken down. Here's a list of other places to post it." Meanwhile, Reddit has precisely that. Warning: link to NSFW board, though this post isn't itself NSFW. http://www.reddit.com/r/TheFappening/comments/2fa2a1/meta_ef... In which the mods write: "On another note: please use other hosting sites besides imgur.com. We have a large…

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Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

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Post by chc »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #130
api wrote: post #120

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Both groups certainly exist, but one is larger than the other by a few orders of magnitude.

(disclaimer: not meaning to start any kind of flame-war) To be honest, the one I perceive (as a straight, white, middle-class, educated male) larger is the misandristic one. As a person who strives to be good and helpful to every human being equally, regardless of race, gender, orientation or whatever, I get everyday on the Internet and I get flooded by articles and comments saying that everything I do or think is mi…

> To be honest, the one I perceive (as a straight, white, middle-class, educated male) larger is the misandristic one

This reminds me of a line I heard on Futurama once: "This is the worst kind of discrimination — the kind against me!"

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Post by elwell »

coffeedrinker wrote: post #164
DonaldH wrote: post #151

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I've noticed this with my own websites. Fonts consistently look great in FF and IE but terrible in Chrome. What can be done to fix this?

Turn of the DPI scaling in Windows. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2900023 Google around for the actual steps.

I'd rather not do a fix like that; I want to notice if sites I code have the issue.

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Post by jimlei »

eridius wrote: post #182
r00fus wrote: post #92

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Well, Keepass is free as in beer too, so from a licensing perspective, that's a factor (mainly for adoption) though, 1Password is a totally affordable and solid investment for 99%+ of folks on this board). Free allows much more organic adoption - I can recommend a friend to use KeePass without worrying a bit that he doesn't think 1Password is a good investment. I can mandate it for my team at work without having to g…

Free as in beer is a reason to be more distrustful of the software. Sure it's more convenient, but this seems to be an area where it's really worth investing money in getting the more reliable solution.

Why do you assume paid software is more reliable?

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

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Post by prawn »

jwcooper wrote: post #156
prawn wrote: post #155

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I currently use PasswordSafe which is clunky as hell but generally works OK. I checked the 1Password site and it seems like a bit of a bait and switch. Download links without any mention of a price or trial anywhere on the product pages until you create a vault and see a License link in the menus. Then $50+ and another $10 for the mobile app. I'm sure it's worth it, but I'd much rather they spell out their pricing up…

They have a 'store' link [1] right in their header with all the pricing. They could maybe be a little more upfront about it, but it's not really a bait and switch. Also, the prices do seem fairly reasonable for what it does. The only thing holding me back has been not having great mobile access (as far as I can tell) on Safari on iOS. Looks like iOS 8 will change that. [1] https://agilebits.com/store

I think they purposely avoid putting a "Buy" link on their product page because they want to get people started before revealing that the software costs money (and a lot of money for a password safe).

IMO it's not far off the equivalent of how tourist trap restaurants in Europe put out bread on the table (something provided for free in many restaurants) and then charge you if you touch any. FWIW, that's considered pretty slimy behaviour.

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Post by hrrsn »

newman314 wrote: post #186
Dobbs wrote: post #136

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You are 100% correct. To add to this all syncing on 1Password is done using 3rd party vendors. You can use dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, etc to do the actual syncing of the encrypted files.

No true. I sync using BT Sync and it works fine. It's just not interpreted with 1Password like Dropbox is.

> dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, etc

Point being the sync is platform agnostic. The etcetera covers BT Sync.

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Post by hisyam »

rayiner wrote: post #8
harryh wrote: post #3

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Dude. 1Password. Switching to using it for everything was one of the single smartest things I did this year. I agree with you about the wider industry problem, but for your own personal use just start using a password manager. Just do it.

Installed! I guess I knew I should use a password manager, but the analysis paralysis of figuring out which one to use is crippling. I just want someone to tell me what to do!

There was a reddit thread that reviews a bunch of password managers out there: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1psfmt/1password_vs_l...

Re: Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

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Post by [deleted] »

eknkc wrote: post #21

I use strong passwords generated by 1Password for everything.. except for iCloud. There I have an idiot password. Why? Because freaking iPhone asks for that when I want to download something from App Store. How do you guys handle that?

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