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I find it somewhat sad that law is basically a guild where arcane language is used to gatekeep what should be a much more straightforward exercise.
I find it somewhat sad that programming is basically a guild where arcane language is used to gatekeep what should be a much more straightforward exercise.
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To be honest, one or the other should be the case. Either wild speculation on medicine and law should be fine (this is my position). Or, people should fear medical speculation as much as they do legal speculation (I think this is the more pathetic option).
Maybe neither of the extremes you pulled out of your ass is of any use, and you're being downvoted because you left a low information comment and then doubled down on it. The community here really does not approve of treating this public space like Twitter and Reddit, which I value. More to the point -- that idea of a "legal hack" could fail to hold up in court for a variety of reasons, and really the idea of a legal…
carbocation is right about the underlying point, btw. This is an internet forum, the purpose is good conversation, and speculation is a normal part of conversation. It can of course be dumb and low-information, but it needn't be.
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Maybe neither of the extremes you pulled out of your ass is of any use, and you're being downvoted because you left a low information comment and then doubled down on it. The community here really does not approve of treating this public space like Twitter and Reddit, which I value. More to the point -- that idea of a "legal hack" could fail to hold up in court for a variety of reasons, and really the idea of a legal…
Personal attacks are not ok on HN. I appreciate your concern for the quality of the site, but doing this is one of the worst ways to destroy itt. So if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. carbocation is right about the underlying point, btw. This is an internet forum, the purpose is good conversation, and speculation is a norma…
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For passwords, yes, this is generally best practice. Also, the salt is normally stored with the hashed password, as it’s not regarded as a secret. Modern GPUs can manage several thousand million SHA256 hashes/sec, so even with a salt per hash it’s not going to take long to get a given entry, given the 32bit address space of IPv4
You can use bcrypt or argon2 to make it much slower than that.
If I am got a DoS attack or Spam, I need the IP to find out to whom I should file abuse complain.
Do we need to sanitize SMTP header too? How about shuting down DNSBL?
Counting an IP address as PII is kind of crappy, you need a court order to turn an IP alone into PII. Operators should be free to log traffic at the network level, PII should only come into play once you're asking someone to provide personal information.
Lots of comments here about how IPs aren't PII b/c they can change, etc. I'm not arguing that, but consider that there is an entire _industry_ around using IPs to specifically target people, companies and households that is effective enough for businesses to write large checks to them. Household IP Targeting - https://www.vicimediainc.com/ip-targeting-direct-mail-intern... Or even just your ISP (who for sure know you…
Boohoo, poor devs need to finally pay attention to people’s private data.
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Personal attacks are not ok on HN. I appreciate your concern for the quality of the site, but doing this is one of the worst ways to destroy itt. So if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. carbocation is right about the underlying point, btw. This is an internet forum, the purpose is good conversation, and speculation is a norma…
EDIT: Taking the L on this one.