bernierocks

"google auth, facebook auth, github auth"

So you now have a handful of failure points. I also am against the idea of building my entire user base off of someone else's platform. It's just asking for trouble down the road.

"I find punching in a username + password extremely inconvenient, and this is why I never create new accounts from scratch."

Security is really never convenient. You need to have a good balance between the two. A password manager is pretty convenient, even my non-tech savvy parents can use one.

"So what I am hearing from you is "user authentication" is your greatest security challenge?"

No. I was making a comment about the recent Ring hacks and how if you are a startup and the exact situation happens, there isn't much you can do beyond telling users to use different passwords or forcing a password change.

Even if you have the most secure encryption in place and all the best security procedures, if your users pick terrible passwords (or another site gets hacked and they use the same password), they will get their accounts hacked.

The 1619 Project is a representation what's wrong with our society today: It claims to be facts, but speculates on the intentions of our founding fathers and many other people in history, with no real way to know the actual truth...because we weren't actually there.

Ring was hacked because the victims used the same password across multiple websites and those other websites had data breaches.

You can't really do anything about this, no matter how great your security is.

I suppose Ring could enforce 2FA across the entire platform, but many people wouldn't accept this and they would lose customers.

I use a password manager and don't reuse any password for any site and have 2FA enabled on all of my important accounts. The problem is that most people don't want to be inconvenienced.

" but with a plus of cleverness, strange ways to do things, uncommon hobbies and extravaganza"

You present autistic children like they are all little Sheldons from the Big bang theory, when the reality couldn't be further from the truth.

Autism is a spectrum where a certain percentage of kids are as you say, but many can't do anything without the help of an adult and certainly aren't going to have 'uncommon hobbies' or 'cleverness'.

This looks like spam and I imagine whatever you are doing will no longer work after awhile. Why not just create a legitimate business?

This law won't result in more people with full-time employment. It will result in more job loss.

"The hate-filled vitriol of Trumpism, the barely-hidden hate of Brexit"

Before I got to the end of the article, I knew this was where it was going.

No mention of the left-wing violence on our college campuses, and the conservative speakers that have their freedom of speech violated regularly and their lives threatened with impunity.

No mention of the top tech companies attempting to sway our next election by misleading the general public through blatant censorship of the right.

The doom and gloom about poverty is ridiculous. The current US economy is the best it has been in a decade. Our gas prices are very low because the Trump administration has reduced regulations and opened up local drilling (which means less reliance on oil from the Middle East).

Unemployment rates for everyone are at record lows.

Our society might be dying, but it has nothing to do with what is mentioned in this article.

The ring doorbell camera is very obvious at this point and you can clearly see when it's being used by the logo on the front and the large glowing button.

Just like with the anti-gun zealots, I feel like advocates only want to help criminals and make it more and more difficult for law-abiding citizens from protecting their home and families.

You will not get this opportunity again. Almost nobody will pay you $25/hour for many months, to essentially learn anything at your own pace until work picks up.

Most companies are not busy between the end of November and the end of January due to everyone taking vacations, so you probably won't be getting much work until after the holidays.

We have the lowest unemployment rates in a decade. He has to be doing something right.

With all of the humans emitting CO2 from their bodies right now and population increase that happens every year, dreaming of other planets might be the only alternative.

I really have a hard time believing that after your brother lost his job at Blockbuster (10 years ago?) that he will 'never work again'.

On top of this, Capitalism is what continues to create new jobs, and ensures, for the post part, that you will be able to find another job if you lose your current one.

The secrecy IS deliberate. They want to keep things vague and secret, so it can be used as a weapon against companies that don't fall in line with the EUs political beliefs or when they are running out of money and need some more.

It was really only created for Google and Facebook. They make tons of money and the EU wanted to figure out an excuse for getting some more of it, without it being considered outright theft.