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Instapaper Outage Cause and Recovery medium.com

5 nhm 9 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 9 years ago

Related EFF article, "Finally Revealed: Cloudflare Has Been Fighting NSL for Years": https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/finally-revealed-cloud...

Comment · 10 years ago

> outsource to people who obsess over doing this right

Completely agree! I often have to fight that "I could just build that myself" mentality, which glosses over the points you made so well.

Using AWS Lambda to call and text you when your servers are down thisdata.com

160 nhm 10 years ago 53 comments

Comment · 10 years ago

This is such a neat hack! I wasn't able to figure out how to get a padlock at the start of the spoofed domain, but as an example, chuck this in your browser bar `عربي.امارات/google.com/test/test` (no need to hit enter)

*edit: HN removed the unicode lock. It was after the .com

Google Chrome, Firefox Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability rafayhackingarticles.net

3 nhm 10 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 10 years ago

Contextual / behavioral authentication is taking off! Ping Identity just announced some new contextual features: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160815005676/en/Ping... (Press Release).

And it's what we've been doing at ThisData for quite some time now: https://thisdata.com. Glad to see the topic getting some visibility.

Forget two-factor authentication, here comes context-aware authentication computerworld.com

13 nhm 10 years ago 1 comments

Comment · 10 years ago

If you're allergic to Forbes, I wrote a short summary on my company blog: https://thisdata.com/blog/bug-in-apple-products-allows-passw...

Tyler Bohan's original disclosure writeup (with some technial details) is here: http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0171/

Comment · 11 years ago

Revert is hiring in Auckland, NZ: https://revert.io/careers Looking for a Senior/Intermediate Ruby dev, ElasticSearch and/or "Big Data" experience is a bonus. Also a graduate position, designer, and sales rep. We'd love to hear from you!

Comment · 11 years ago

I work at Revert, and I second this plug! Evernote is one of our most popular apps, and we also back up Dropbox, Google Drive, Tumblr, and more.

Feel free to ask any questions you might have :)

Comment · 12 years ago

And a blog post introducing Dr. SaaS: http://rowansimpson.com/2014/11/06/dr-saas/

Show HN: Dr. SaaS – Metrics and diagnosis for a healthier software business drsaas.md

6 nhm 12 years ago 2 comments

EMC Has Acquired Spanning spanning.com

2 nhm 12 years ago 0 comments

Comment · 12 years ago

"... for a total of approximately $2 billion. This includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock (valued at $1.6 billion based on the average closing price of the 20 trading days preceding March 21, 2014 of $69.35 per share). The agreement also provides for an additional $300 million earn-out in cash and stock based on the achievement of certain milestones."

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/facebook-to-acquire-...