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And we wonder why no women are in tech...
why? can't women in your mind take a joke? The women I know are perfectly capable of hearing phrases like that, they aren't some fragile gender that need to be protected.
Not at all surprised. Anyone that used the app would be suspicious of the backend behind it. Should have taken that $3bn while you had the chance.
Unless it's changed recently, the phone number is user-supplied and I'm not sure if it's verified at all. They do claim that the phone number "will be stored as unique mathematical representations (or 'hashes')..." rather than plaintext, but I imagine if you know it's a non-salted phone number that's been hashed, it's pretty easy to brute force. But were they lying about hashing the phone numbers? I guess it doesn't…
Did they really claim phone numbers are hashed? If so, why has nobody else touched on this subject?
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Unless it's changed recently, the phone number is user-supplied and I'm not sure if it's verified at all. They do claim that the phone number "will be stored as unique mathematical representations (or 'hashes')..." rather than plaintext, but I imagine if you know it's a non-salted phone number that's been hashed, it's pretty easy to brute force. But were they lying about hashing the phone numbers? I guess it doesn't…
jaz27: Why is your comment grey? Did they really claim phone numbers are hashed? If so, why has nobody else touched on this subject?
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like other people are saying -- HN is news by committee. just try to post a joke on here one day & see how many rapid downvotes it gets if you ever need proof of how lame & uptight the HN crowd can be once they hit that 500 rep. i posted a joke on a comment of someone going "This. A million times this." the other day cuz that is the most melodramatic, overused, annoying, lame textual meme... the joke was pretty innoc…
feeling that they are the protectors of society... Not society, just the SNR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio ).
i understand it as a way for SNR sure, but mostly its just a way to fade the text of people you disagree with. it doesn't solve much for people who can skim, & it usually just makes me more curious about what got downvoted (some of the comments are very insightful but just pissed off those with normative opinion)
im just not into kool-aid drinking & the weird PG (harhar no pun intended) vibe of HN while downvoting & having this weird karma system smacks of lame culty passive aggression, which incidentally is much more offensive to me than actual aggression
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I strongly disagree that your street address being linked to your name is the same as your pseudonymous snapchat username being linked to your cell phone number.
I hope you're agreeing that the street address is way more private than a snapchat user name...
The database and download exclusively on convoe: http://convoe.com/topic/127/introducing-snapchat-database
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Unless it's changed recently, the phone number is user-supplied and I'm not sure if it's verified at all. They do claim that the phone number "will be stored as unique mathematical representations (or 'hashes')..." rather than plaintext, but I imagine if you know it's a non-salted phone number that's been hashed, it's pretty easy to brute force. But were they lying about hashing the phone numbers? I guess it doesn't…
jaz27: Why is your comment grey? Did they really claim phone numbers are hashed? If so, why has nobody else touched on this subject?
No idea on the downvotes. I guess because, like I said, telling users you hash the phone numbers doesn't matter if you're using them to search for an unhashed userid. But they're implying to users that their phone numbers are secure because they're hashed, when it really doesn't matter.
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feeling that they are the protectors of society... Not society, just the SNR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio ).
obvious logic, link to wiki for explanation of common term -- u my friend are due for about 5 upvotes in the HN chain of circular validation. i understand it as a way for SNR sure, but mostly its just a way to fade the text of people you disagree with. it doesn't solve much for people who can skim, & it usually just makes me more curious about what got downvoted (some of the comments are very insightful but just piss…
i didnt want to come of as indignant tho, its just a funny coincidence. you never quite know who you are condescending to on here