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Frondo commented on Ord Phone ordphone.com... · Posted by u/walz

SethKinast · 3 years ago

Submitted by user `walz` 2 hours ago.

The site pulls in an analytics script from the domain `route.run`.

Going to route.run redirects to routeshuffle.com.

routeshuffle.com/about :

   Made by a teenager
   
   I'm Riley Walz, a distance runner from New York. I made Routeshuffle to help
   with my summer training in high school.

Not only is the credit card form not actually hosted by Stripe even though it says it is, this isn't from an "experimental product studio in New York", it's a random teenager from New York that just slurped up your credit card info.

Frondo · 3 years ago

This should be the top comment.

Frondo commented on First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming wsj.com/articles/first-u-... · Posted by u/pondsider

AnthonyMouse · 3 years ago

Authoritarian hellholes will make something up when they don't like you, but they'll also spy on everyone to decide who they don't like. At which point anyone attempting to resist them is going to want to get extremely familiar with operational security before they get dead, and a big part of that is things like encryption and steganography.

Frondo · 3 years ago

Encryption will not keep you hidden from an authoritarian government for long, and certainly not for long if you're trying to build a movement with any sort of wide-spread support.

Frondo commented on Ask HN: Stripe is holding 50% for 9 month · Posted by u/MarkDJong

DANmode · 3 years ago

> I don't know why we all play along

Sunlight kills all infection.

Frondo · 3 years ago

Sunlight only works reasonably well for waterborne pathogens, and only when you've got time.

As with disinfecting anything, and especially for societal issues, we need more than sunlight alone.

Frondo commented on First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming wsj.com/articles/first-u-... · Posted by u/pondsider

AnthonyMouse · 3 years ago

> This is why I think technical solutions alone to privacy are mostly pointless.

Technical solutions to privacy are not required to be alone. They're required to be ubiquitous. If your country is an authoritarian hellhole, you encrypt everything to help you not get murdered by the secret police. If your country has strong privacy protections, you encrypt everything to help ensure that it never becomes an authoritarian hellhole, and protect you against bureaucratic failures as defense in depth.

To invade your privacy, an attacker should have to break the law and break the encryption.

Frondo · 3 years ago

Life in an authoritarian hellhole almost by definition means technology won't save you. If they can haul you off when you're walking down the street, who cares whether your stuff is encrypted? They'll make something up.

Even if you're innocent, they'll make something up. I lived for a year in one of those authoritarian hellholes and in that time knew two people who were arrested and hauled from station to station til someone paid a bribe- these weren't the dissidents either, just some guys. The dissident was stabbed to death on his doorstep.

Encryption is good to save us from marketing, from megacorps making our lives hell. Laws and norms constrain the rest.

Frondo commented on Thunderbird 115 thunderbird.net/en-US/thu... · Posted by u/patadune

danpalmer · 3 years ago

I can't believe how janky this still looks after a UI overhaul. Text is misaligned in lots of places, the icons are fuzzy, spacing and padding is inconsistent even within the same areas, there are 3 sets of 3-dot icons in the sidebar in two different axes. It's just careless.

Most users don't care about the alignment and spacing and so on in isolation, but they do get a sense of quality from the overall impact. This stuff really matters in aggregate.

Frondo · 3 years ago

> Most users don't care about the alignment and spacing and so on in isolation, but they do get a sense of quality from the overall impact. This stuff really matters in aggregate.

Red Letter Media has a great phrase that rolls around in my head to describe situations like this (they use it for media analysis), "You might not recognize it, but your brain did."

Where you might not be able to point to a problem, but you instinctively know something is off.

Frondo commented on Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote twitter.com/StanfordGWU/s... · Posted by u/xavierstein

supernova87a · 3 years ago

I disagree. You are entitled to what you can negotiate as your market value and what you accept in exchange for your labor and talents. If grad students are lined up the door willing to work for less because a PhD from Stanford gives them a ticket for the rest of their life, why should Stanford or any employer have to give them a share of value? That's not how most employment works. Or at least not O(n) proportional to the value they create.

Frondo · 3 years ago

Organizing and demanding pay collectively seems to help in negotiations, so good for them for taking this approach. It's not like Stanford can move its grad programs to Mexico like a US car maker and its factories.

Frondo commented on Stanford Graduate Students Won Their Union Vote twitter.com/StanfordGWU/s... · Posted by u/xavierstein

CraigRo · 3 years ago

Caused huge attrition of the 1st and 2nd year stem students (i.e. quit with a masters). The union was dominated by humanities students, and they fought for what they wanted, not what the overall membership wanted. Very few STEM folks had any interest in being part of the union, but because so many voted with their feet, it was hopeless to set up a decertifiying petition.

Frondo · 3 years ago

Democracy isn't perfect, but checking out is the quickest route to ensuring your interests are only minimally represented. True at all levels of democratic organization.

Frondo commented on Hunting for Nginx alias traversals in the wild labs.hakaioffsec.com/ngin... · Posted by u/celesian

housemusicfan · 3 years ago

Shall we make straight razors illegal too while we're at it?

Let's not reduce everything to the least common denominator lest we end up like (formerly) Oregon where you couldn't pump your own gas because it was "dangerous" for the lay person.

Frondo · 3 years ago

I don't think you'd find a single woodworker anywhere who, if they could afford it, wouldn't prefer a table saw with Sawstop. How much are your fingers worth to you?