Gab Has Been Breached • Hacker News Board

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by dang » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 7:33 PM UTC

throwoutttt wrote: post #96

hluska wrote: post #69

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Are you completely tone deaf, of below average intelligence or are you really this much of a bigot?

Are you really in that much of a bubble reality

Would you please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines with? Obviously we have to ban such accounts. Continuing down this path will get your ban account banned as well, so please don't.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by lultimouomo » Fri, Mar 05, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

tsimionescu wrote: post #177

lultimouomo wrote: post #114

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> [0] of course, there is a chance that you just discovered a hash collision, but that is exceedingly unlikely. It also means that Gab would have accepted 'password' as the password for that user anyway, even if the string they typed in was 'warblerer' (which it would also accept). I don't think password policy enforcement can be reasonably done after the hashing. You cannot apply password rules as information about…

I don't understand how your comment relates to what you are quoting. Password policy enforcement is done on the plain text password, during initial account creation or during a password change workflow. Then, the password and salt are hashed and the result and the salt are stored. When the user tries to login they then provide the plaintext password; the salt is retrieved, it is added to the password, the result is h…

Let's assume that the Gab user used a long and complicated password, that happened to hash-collide with "password". How do you know that Gab would have accepted "password" as a password? All we know is that it accepted the long and complicated one.

This is obviously moot, as a collision is exceedingly unlikely in this case, but still.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by kelnos » Sun, Mar 07, 2021, 7:23 PM UTC

totalZero wrote: post #188

kelnos wrote: post #185

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> SF (and the US tech sphere at large) isn't an environment where people are taught to bridge the divide and understand others who think differently than they do. You're painting a very diverse group with quite a broad brush. People in SF and the US tech sphere come from all over the place (even outside the US) and from many different backgrounds. People in US tech circles live and work side-by-side with people from…

Diversity of opinion is about much more than ethnic background. Also, just to be clear, I haven't said anything about Trump in my three other comments in this thread. CTRL+F me. > As you noted, he wasn't booted for supporting a mainstream viewpoint; he was booted for harassing other YC founders with his political views, harassment that took a decidedly racist/xenophobic turn. The original comment didn't link to addit…

> Diversity of opinion is about much more than ethnic background.

Agreed, though restricting your interactions (even unintentionally) to people of the same background as you does have a big limiting effect on the kind of opinions you'll have. It's a physical echo chamber for some attitudes.

But you can make the same parallels for other attributes: how many openly LGBTQ people live in heavily conservative areas vs. liberal? Definitely fewer. In many conservative areas, LGBTQ folks literally fear for their lives. As a consequence, conservative people have less experience and understanding of these folks, and that (among other things) leads to fear or even hate.

> Also, just to be clear, I haven't said anything about Trump in my three other comments in this thread. CTRL+F me.

Never claimed you did; no need to be so defensive about this. You suggested that people in the bay area / US tech circles don't try to consider other people's perspectives. Given that most tech people in the bay area are left-leaning, it stands to reason they're not Trump supporters. Regardless, I was merely talking about my own personal experience as someone trying to understand people with (a particular type of) different values from mine, and mostly failing.

Re: Gab Has Been Breached

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Post by yazfield » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 10:27 AM UTC

hmry wrote: post #166

yazfield wrote: post #153

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not from usa, but genuinely curious. why is "not talking to X journals" disgusting? many people do that because they don't want to be on a journal with an editorial line they don't like. am I missing something about the guy or the story?

Not talking to a journalist because of their political ideology is understandable to me, although this person probably has a very broad definition of what a communist is. Not talking to someone based on their religion on the other hand is really quite rude, shallow and discriminatory.

Good point but it's not talking to a journal not a person, I thought he wants to avoid misrepresentation