Very likely the person doing the timing was either consistently late or consistently early and it was not an even distribution. Especially since they were getting no feedback on their accuracy.
There is an artist in Vermont, a real estate person in Texas, and a guy in Britain who all routinely give my email address thinking it's their own.
It happens constantly. I've stopped being nice.
For the guy in Vermont, he signed up for voicemail. So I password-recovered his account, got his phone number, and gave him a call. Bastard got upset at me thinking it was a scam. Later... I got a request for a caricature for the police chief. So I drew one, MS paint style and sent a $300 invoice.
For the guy in Texas, I got some poor schmo's mortgage app sent to me from another real estate agent. I mean, full financial details. I replied letting them know they were probably breaking the law by sending it to me. I still get shit.
The guy in Britain has signed up for: 1. Online bill pay for his gas bill 2. Multiple online betting websites 3. A "find a naughty-housewife" website I've password-recovered and closed all those accounts.
Google suggests you don't post your username & password to GitHub. The locksmith's union suggests you don't tape your key to your front door. The TSA suggests you don't write your combination on your luggage.
That is an interesting thought, but may be difficult in practice.
A theft occurs coins are transferred... > Mt Gox -> Wallet X
Some time goes by and the coins are moved around
> Wallet X -> Wallet Y -> Wallet Z
Finally, the coin is moved to somewhere we can track, like a well regulated exchange. Wallet Z -> A regulated exchange
FBI would have to backtrack from that point. There might be some significant cost for each step.
I also wonder how well coin mixing services work. For huge volumes like this, I can't imagine them being effective. But for smaller amounts, maybe over time, they may prevent that backtrace from being feasible.
One of the key "benefits" of bitcoin is one of the biggest problems with it in situations like this, the inability to reverse transactions.
If someone digitally steals a shit ton of cash for a regular bank, there's a good chance those transactions can be reversed and, at least some, or the money can be recovered.
Not so in bitcoin world where you would have to find the perpetrator and get his private key.
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Isn't the point of a blockchain that the contents are publicly verifiable?
Isn't medical data something you don't want public?
Transportation is easy! Blimps!
This is probably way worse security for the techno-illiterate.
Attacker enters password.
Clueless user gets notification, taps it.
Attacker is let in.
Whereas before it would be:
Attacker enters password.
Clueless user gets a number that they don't know what to do with
Attacker is not let in.
You don't have a team of developers. You have a bunch of single-person teams. Don't try to manage it as a team.
Legos thrown on the floor.
Natural gas or oil plants.
Very likely the person doing the timing was either consistently late or consistently early and it was not an even distribution. Especially since they were getting no feedback on their accuracy.
They did say linux and osx are coming.
Chase sends me a text when a questionable charge comes in. I can text back to approve it.
Still have had false-positives, and still has never prevented fraud, but at least they make it easy.
Just put tinfoil over your sensors. Problem solved.
Couldn't the police just use the app?
How are seat configurations patentable anymore? Why hasn't someone generated every single configuration possible on a given plane and published it?
There is an artist in Vermont, a real estate person in Texas, and a guy in Britain who all routinely give my email address thinking it's their own.
It happens constantly. I've stopped being nice.
For the guy in Vermont, he signed up for voicemail. So I password-recovered his account, got his phone number, and gave him a call. Bastard got upset at me thinking it was a scam. Later... I got a request for a caricature for the police chief. So I drew one, MS paint style and sent a $300 invoice.
For the guy in Texas, I got some poor schmo's mortgage app sent to me from another real estate agent. I mean, full financial details. I replied letting them know they were probably breaking the law by sending it to me. I still get shit.
The guy in Britain has signed up for:
1. Online bill pay for his gas bill
2. Multiple online betting websites
3. A "find a naughty-housewife" website
I've password-recovered and closed all those accounts.
Get 16 laptops.
Does this mean a cable subscriber is worth ~ $5000 to a cable company?
>> $580 million replacing stolen phones each year and $4.8 billion paying for handset insurance.
Whoa whoa whoa... If every person got insurance, that's over an 8x markup for insurance. Since many don't, it's even a higher markup.
Here's an easy way to save $4.3B - Stop buying the insurance.
In related news...
Google suggests you don't post your username & password to GitHub.
The locksmith's union suggests you don't tape your key to your front door.
The TSA suggests you don't write your combination on your luggage.
That is an interesting thought, but may be difficult in practice.
A theft occurs coins are transferred...
> Mt Gox -> Wallet X
Some time goes by and the coins are moved around
> Wallet X -> Wallet Y -> Wallet Z
Finally, the coin is moved to somewhere we can track, like a well regulated exchange.
Wallet Z -> A regulated exchange
FBI would have to backtrack from that point. There might be some significant cost for each step.
I also wonder how well coin mixing services work. For huge volumes like this, I can't imagine them being effective. But for smaller amounts, maybe over time, they may prevent that backtrace from being feasible.
One of the key "benefits" of bitcoin is one of the biggest problems with it in situations like this, the inability to reverse transactions.
If someone digitally steals a shit ton of cash for a regular bank, there's a good chance those transactions can be reversed and, at least some, or the money can be recovered.
Not so in bitcoin world where you would have to find the perpetrator and get his private key.
Just rated several of king's games 1-star, no idea if that helps, but made me feel better.
No, it's analogous to a software firm that releases a virus and gets paid to clean it up.
Hack Reactor claims 99% placement?
If true, maybe this really is an innovative education environment that aggressive regulation should stay away from.
Can I get this before I die? I hate talking with people sometimes.
Looking at logs I have access to, I see
Between 50% and 65% for a series of education related sites.
6% for a highly technical site.
Clearly what the site caters to has a big impact.
I bet apple.com is even lower ;)
Anyone know if these burners are write-once drives?
If so, it pretty much guarantees that Facebook keeps a copy of your stuff forever, even if you "delete" it.