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93po commented on I hacked Monster Energy   bobdahacker.com/blog/mons... · Posted by u/speckx
billy99k · a day ago
I contacted the owner of the house I found unlocked and there was no response, so I proceeded to let myself in anyway.

These writeups are Jr. level hacks (I looked through them all). Aside from making the company look bad, you don't really learn much from it because they are so easy.

I'm tempted to just find the person that owns this blog and make sure they aren't hired int the security industry. We don't need people like this around.

93po · a day ago
alternatively:

the security guard of the local mall left the door unlocked when the mall was actually closed, and i saw the mall hours that it was closed, but i went in anyway out of curiosity since i was already there

93po commented on I hacked Monster Energy   bobdahacker.com/blog/mons... · Posted by u/speckx
js4ever · a day ago
That argument misses the point. Yes, the company has the primary responsibility to fix their vulnerabilities, but that doesn’t justify recklessly publishing exploits. Once an exploit is public, it’s not just 'the company' that suffers, it’s every customer, employee, and partner who relies on that system.

Saying 'fuck responsible disclosure' is basically saying 'let’s hurt innocent users until the company caves.' That’s not activism, that's collateral damage.

If someone genuinely cares about accountability, there are legal and ethical ways to pressure companies. Dumping 0-days into the wild only helps criminals, not users.

93po · a day ago
let's be clear here, though: the root problem isn't someone finding some sensitive papers left on a printer accidentally, it's the person who left them on the printer to begin with. that's the root failure, and damage that results from that root failure is the fault of the person who left them there.

the american system clearly agrees with this, too. you see it insider trading laws. you're allow to trade on insider information as long as it was, for example, overheard at a cafe when some careless blabbermouth was talking about the wrongs things in public.

93po commented on I hacked Monster Energy   bobdahacker.com/blog/mons... · Posted by u/speckx
eclipticplane · a day ago
What _isn't_ common practice is actually copying and posting company material on your blog. Just because a door is unlocked does not give you the right to take materials & post them.
93po · a day ago
This requires you to have any amount of respect for intellectual property, which many find to be immoral
93po commented on I hacked Monster Energy   bobdahacker.com/blog/mons... · Posted by u/speckx
93po · a day ago
it doesn't seem like a hard concept. they're non-binary. they don't identify as either side of the biological sex spectrum and are therefore okay with any pronouns. it's also common in trans-accepting communities to preemptively list your pronouns, even if you're cisgender, and even if you're happy with any pronouns

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93po commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel   cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
93po · a day ago
would be cool if we didn' t reward companies with billions of dollars for offshoring production and labor to maximize profits at the expense of american jobs, and apparently, national security.
93po commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"   github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
dralley · 5 days ago
>I have long suspected that Google gives so much money to Mozilla both for the default search option, but also for massive indirect control to deliberately cripple Mozilla in insidious ways to massively reduce Firefox's marketshare.

This has never ever made sense because Mozilla is not at all afraid to piss in Google's cheerios at the standards meetings. How many different variations of Flock and similar adtech oriented features did they shoot down? It's gotta be at least 3. Not to mention the anti-fingerprinting tech that's available in Firefox (not by default because it breaks several websites) and opposition to several Google-proposed APIs on grounds of fingerprinting. And keeping Manifest V2 around indefinitely for the adblockers.

People just want a conspiracy, even when no observed evidence actually supports it.

>And I have long predicted that Google is going to make the rate of change needed in web standards so high that orgs like Mozilla can't keep up and then implode/become unusable.

That's basically true whether incidentally or on purpose.

93po · 5 days ago
Controlled opposition is absolutely a thing, and to think that people at trillion dollar companies wouldn't do this is naive. I'm not claiming for a fact that mozilla is controlled opposition, i'm just saying it's very feasible that it could be, and i look for signs of it.

You give examples of things they disagree on, and i wouldn't refute that. However i would say that google is going to pick and choose their battles, because ultimately things they appear to "lose on" sort of don't matter. fingerprinting is a great example - yes, firefox provides it, but it's still largely pretty useless, and its impact is even more meaningless because so few people use it. if you have javascript on and arent using a VPN, chances are your anti-fingerprinting isn't actually doing much other than annoying you and breaking sites.

the only real thing to be used for near-complete-anonymity is Tor, but only when it's also used in the right way, and when JavaScript is also turned off. And even then there are ways it could and probably has failed.

93po commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"   github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo
kg · 5 days ago
Former Mozilla and Google (Chrome team specifically) dev here. The way I see what you're saying is: Representatives from Chrome/Blink, Safari/Webkit, and Firefox/Gecko are all supportive of removing XSLT from the web platform, regardless of whether it's still being used. It's okay because someone from Mozilla brought it up.

Out of those three projects, two are notoriously under-resourced, and one is notorious for constantly ramming through new features at a pace the other two projects can't or won't keep up with.

Why wouldn't the overworked/underresourced Safari and Firefox people want an excuse to have less work to do?

This appeal to authority doesn't hold water for me because the important question is not 'do people with specific priorities think this is a good idea' but instead 'will this idea negatively impact the web platform and its billions of users'. Out of those billions of users it's quite possible a sizable number of them rely on XSLT, and in my reading around this issue I haven't seen concrete data supporting that nobody uses XSLT. If nobody really used it there wouldn't be a need for that polyfill.

Fundamentally the question that should be asked here is: Billions of people use the web every day, which means they're relying on technologies like HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, etc. Are we okay with breaking something that 0.1% of users rely on? If we are, okay, but who's going to tell that 0.1% of a billion people that they don't matter?

The argument I've seen made is that Google doesn't have the resources (somehow) to maintain XSLT support. One of the googlers argued that new emerging web APIs are more popular, and thus more deserving of resources. So what we've created is a zero-sum game where any new feature added to the platform requires the removal of an existing feature. Where does that game end? Will we eventually remove ARIA and/or screen reader support because it's not used by enough people?

I think all three browser vendors have a duty to their users to support them to the best of their ability, and Google has the financial and human resources to support users of XSLT and is choosing not to.

93po · 5 days ago
When I see "reps from every browser agree" my bullshit alarm immediately goes off. Does it include unanimous support from browser projects that are either:

1. not trillion dollar tech companies

or

2. not 99% funded from a trillion dollar tech company.

I have long suspected that Google gives so much money to Mozilla both for the default search option, but also for massive indirect control to deliberately cripple Mozilla in insidious ways to massively reduce Firefox's marketshare. And I have long predicted that Google is going to make the rate of change needed in web standards so high that orgs like Mozilla can't keep up and then implode/become unusable.

93po commented on I used to know how to write in Japanese   aethermug.com/posts/i-use... · Posted by u/mrcgnc
hi41 · 9 days ago
>> This is also why I believe that language is a bottleneck for thought

I am not sure I agree with this. We think our thoughts using language. I don’t language is the bottleneck.

93po · 9 days ago
i think you're missing the point. imagine this:

you're walking down a beautiful waterside bridge in kyoto during cherry blossom season. there's really delicious smelling grilled eel from the store next to you. there's a swedish lady walking by you with a cute accent. your skin feels slightly sticky from humidity.

what i just wrote doesn't even begin to encapsulate the entirety of that moment. there were a million other details your brain can form about that moment: the style of brick on the bridge, the other people around you, the sun being in your eyes, that you're smelly bc you forgot deodorant that morning.

to put it shorter: a picture is worth a thousand words. and the author is saying that by having to use language to describe pictures, we have a huge bottleneck

93po commented on I'm worried it might get bad   danielmiessler.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/conzar
CalRobert · 11 days ago
At least it isn’t flagged? Negative takes on AI do poorly here
93po · 11 days ago
____ does good/poorly on HN is often repeated but usually never true. I see constant negativity on AI, and in fact I see it overwhelmingly more negative than positive takes. but i also have my own bias in what i see, and probably falling to the same phenomenon as you

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