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They should have notified the users whose information was leaked, as soon as they knew about it.

The 50M users whose information was handed to Kogan, and then Kogan sold to CA, should have been notified by Facebook as soon as Facebook found out.

Those users did not agree to that kind of usage of their information.

The author's concerns are well justified, however they suggest to provide an alternative.

Measuring time in picoseconds. The current unix timestamp is roughly 2^70 picoseconds, so won't fit in 64 bits.

For male scientists. Feels weird

That the clock always moves forward.

As one example, some clocks are cpu specific (rather than system specific). When a thread gets scheduled to a different cpu, it might be talking to a different clock, and getting a backwards time.

The user might also be changing the clock while the program is running, of course.

If the forward direction of time is important, make sure the the source of time is a monotonic clock API.

Providing account authentication as a service seems like a no-brainer.

Does no company in this space know how to sell to conservative IT organizations like air lines?

33.

The moment my girl was born. I now regret waiting so long to be a parent.

That's fine. I am really interested in the possibility of running a 'homeserver' directly on a phone.

Do you think that would be possible?

Is anyone working on it that I could help?

I have a computer which is always on and always connected.

It's my smartphone.

Can I just run a 'homeserver' on that and be connected?