alexkus

Sky rep lies about basis of security feature? Could be.

If you cancelled out the cyclical/reciprocal debts then you'd still have the same amount of working capital as you'd pay back $X but also get $X back as a creditor.

Indeed. It's .ch because that's the initialism of the Latin name for Switzerland: Confoederatio Helvetica.

The Latin name is used to avoid favouring any one of the four official languages (German, French, Italian, Romansch).

> How RAM Scrapers Work

> Once on a targeted system, RAM scrapers work by examining the list of processes that are running on the system and inspecting the memory for data that matches the structure of credit card data, such as the account number, expiration date, and other information stored on a card’s magnetic stripe.

No hooking, sounds exactly like they're looking through the memory assigned to each process looking for the right looking data.

Occasionally, usually over zealous stripping back of machines in very controlled environments[1].

1. I don't do much work with these kinds of customers any more as I chose not to go for security clearance (on purpose, as this is a convenient way of avoiding these kinds of customers).

I just can't get excited about vim plugins (no matter how good they are, no matter how much I love vi/vim - and no disrespect to their authors). I can imagine how they could increase my productivity (to some extent) but...

I'm old school, I work happily with vi, many of the customers I dealt with going back to the mid-90s never gave me a choice. SunOS 4.1.3U5 (ugh). AIX 3. Heady days of Solaris 2.5. Bog standard vi. vim is a bonus, but I'm far from lost when it's just vi. I love macros, but I can still get stuff done if they aren't available. If there's no vi then I'm not lost either, I can work around stuff with awk/sed/etc.

Fundamentally I don't want to have to ever install a bunch of stuff in multiple places to create a common environment for myself. That's a big problem that hasn't been solved yet. I just want it to be the same everywhere, which is why I don't rely on zsh or even ksh, and I just go for the bare minimum.

I've been to too many customers to know that not being able to do stuff within someone else's environment is really not a good thing. I've seen people escorted off customer sites because they've been ineffectual.

But, the biggest takeway is that I've seen too many new employees/interns that are lost without their expected favoured environment, and it's not getting better. vim plugins aside, there's a growing lack of adaptability.

Indeed. The biggest weakness is that users aren't well trained in ensuring that the page they're typing their username/password into (to access one of the public access points) may not be genuine.

I know I've seen some faked BT Openzone login pages in the UK, luckily the BT Wifi App is clever enough only to attempt to login to the real webpage.

Thanks for the clarification. I know Strava takes the issue of privacy seriously!

Can't remember the terminology they use but Strava allows you to define privacy areas (within a configurable radius of a point) where no points are shown on your individual routes. Exactly to stop someone working out where you live/work from browsing your history.

Either they haven't honoured this when calculating the global heatmap or, more likely (and harder to fix), such locations are given away by friends uploads (who don't have the same privacy areas defined).

Oops.

One of the last things I'd want is lots of drivers near me to be even more distracted saying "Hello? Hello?" into their phone and repeatedly looking at it to see if they're still connected or still have a signal.

Also, good luck if you're in an accident as no-one nearby can call the emergency services.