Previous discussion (4 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453800
Readit Newsnofinator commented on The Surveilled Student (2021) chronicle.com/article/the... · Posted by u/smlacy
nofinator commented on Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? · Posted by u/recvonline
We use https://groups.io/ and are happy
I've also been happy with Groups.io. A local community moved there a few years ago when Yahoo Groups shut down.
The downside is that to get more of a Facebook community experience with a calendar, files, and subgroups, you will probably have to pay for for the Premium level. https://groups.io/static/pricing
nofinator commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR
Can you post a summary? We're affected but I don't have access to that portal.
They've bumped this support info to a blog post that's linked from their home page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content...
It includes PDFs of some relevant support pages that someone printed with their browser 5 hours ago. That's probably the right thing to do in such a situation to get this kind of info publicly available ASAP, but still, oof. Looks like lots of people in the Reddit thread had trouble accessing the support info behind the login screen.
No, the root-cause is not AT&T were "attacked, by criminals"; there's a much wider issue involving Snowflake and multiple customers. The full facts are not in yet.
AT&T's data was compromised as one of Snowflake's many customer breaches (Ticketmaster/LiveNation, LendingTree, Advance Auto Parts, Santander Bank, AT&T, probably others [0][1]), which occurred and were notified in 4/2024 (EDIT: some reports says as far back as 10/2023). Supposedly these happened because Snowflake made it impossible to mandate MFA; some customers had credentials stolen by info-stealing malware or obtained from previous data breaches. Snowflake called it a “targeted campaign directed at users with single-factor authentication”. The Mandiant report tried to blame unnamed Snowflake employee (solutions engineer) for exposing their credentials.
How much responsibility Snowflake had, vs its clients, is not clear (for example, seems they only notified all other customers May 23, not immediately when they suspected the first compromise). Reducing the analysis to pure "victims" and "criminals" is not accurate. When you say "criminally prosecute those whose negligence made this possible", it wouldn't make sense to prosecute all of Snowflake's clients but not Snowflake too. Or only the cybercriminals but not Snowflake or its clients.
[0]: The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning (wired.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40553163
[1]: 6/24 Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward (theregister.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40780064
> Supposedly these happened because Snowflake made it impossible to mandate MFA
What's crazy is that Snowflake made MFA enforcement available only 5 days ago.
Very neat! I love how you can do an entire paragraph.
For example https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris/?text=%7D6G6C+8%40%3F%3...
nofinator commented on How much is one terabyte of data? github.com/SPLWare/esProc... · Posted by u/Judyrabbit
If you're looking for a visualization, a YouTube team of VFX artists did some neat ones last year in this video: https://youtu.be/J-K2yeQylCk
To duck out of the new ToS, just write this email to legal@23andme.com--
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is [name], and my 23andMe account is under the email [email]. I am writing to declare that I do not agree to the new terms of service at https://www.23andme.com/legal/terms-of-service/.
I'm just surprised they aren't making you send a physical letter via USPS.
Some companies require that. Here is PayPal's process for example: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/useragreement-full#table-...
nofinator commented on X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? nerology.substack.com/p/x... · Posted by u/NeroVanbierv
a.org is an odd one. It's just an HTML form input that doesn't post anywhere, but it became a curious rabbit hole on r/hacking a few months ago.
+1 for how great the Snowflake t-shirt is (ranked #3). I wore it a lot during the COVID era, and the poly blend is still soft and has withstood a lot of washing and drying.
When we signed onto Snowflake in 2019, a week later a surprise HUGE box of swag arrived, with a dozen shirts and lots of other things. Our team and corner of the office became The Place To Be for a while.