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If we only had a few more programmers

Poor, poor Epic, a tiny startup barely making it to the next month with their 3000 employees and $5B annual revenue

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Half of those are Unix-like. Don’t forget what GNU stands for (literally, not philosophically)!

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Don’t do creative things for other people’s praise, do it for yourself!

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AB+ are all “blood is blood”, but nobody wants their shit-tier dodgy blood!

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The attacker would need physical possession of the YubiKey, Security Key, or YubiHSM, knowledge of the accounts they want to target and specialized equipment to perform the necessary attack. Depending on the use case, the attacker may also require additional knowledge including username, PIN, account password, or authentication key.

The attacks require about $11,000 worth of equipment and a sophisticated understanding of electrical and cryptographic engineering. The difficulty of the attack means it would likely be carried out only by nation-states or other entities with comparable resources and then only in highly targeted scenarios. The likelihood of such an attack being used widely in the wild is extremely low.

Given this massive caveat I’d almost call that headline misleading

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I imagine this is how everyone who worked in cryptography felt once cryptocurrency claimed the word “crypto”

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You’ll know you completed the installation successfully when you look down and see the socks have materialised

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Meta … can’t guarantee “what a third-party provider does with sent or received messages.”

I’m more concerned with what the first-party provider is doing with my sent or received messages when that first-party is Facebook!

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You could definitely have raised a bug report in the time it took you to make this

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142 points

Violence with strangers? Fuck yeah!

Swear words!? Fuck no!

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