Recent submissions

Comment · 10 months ago
No counterparts worldwide? Here in Australia, all significant case law has been published on AustLII, which is freely accessible and searchable, since about 2000. I think CanLII and NZLII are equally comprehensive. Government law publishers provide free and authoritative access to all statutes. Lexis and Westlaw still make money by publishing commentary and summaries, but paywalled primary sources are an American problem.
Comment · 1 year ago
“Chat Control” is a pejorative name used by the law’s opponents. Its official name is the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'd complain to Google about this, maybe through a lawyer if needed to get them to take it seriously. They won't accept full responsibility, and in general people need to be aware of the risk of spoofed email, but Google should be able to stop fake emails from google.com from appearing in a Gmail inbox. You'd think they would also have the ability to recover an email deleted immediately after an account takeover, or at least work out how the spoofed email was delivered from other internal logs. Google should investigate whether their negligence contributed to the success of this attack.
Comment · 1 year ago
The article says an email including Goldberg’s signature block was copied and pasted into a text message from Hughes.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I’d say a small law firm. They don’t have a security team, they’re routinely targeted by phishers, and their data is easier to convert into money than the huge mass of (mostly completely uninteresting) data fed into ChatGPT.
Comment · 2 years ago
That's fine if you control the endpoint and want to expose ssh on it, but WireGuard endpoints are also commonly available from VPN providers who don't provide shell access.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
This is addressed in the linked source, although that wouldn’t be obvious if you’re not familiar with Australian work health and safety law:

> the re-emergence of silicosis in engineered stone workers is also due to a failure of compliance with existing WHS laws … PCBUs [persons conducting a business or undertaking, who are subject to WHS laws] have not done all that is reasonably practicable to eliminate or minimise those risks, and workers have not taken reasonable care for their own health and safety and that of others [which is a criminal offence]. Finally, there has been insufficient compliance and enforcement actions by WHS regulators to drive behaviour change in the sector … A lower silica content engineered stone is not expected to result in improvements in compliance. The features of the sector that have contributed to the current levels of non-compliance remain – the sector is comprised of mostly small businesses with few barriers to entry and a lower understanding of WHS obligations.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
The US Code is divided into numbered titles, sections, paragraphs and subparagraphs which can link to and incorporate each other by reference. This tree structure is reflected in typographic conventions which visually distinguish operative provisions from headings, indices and editorial notes. Isn't this the same kind of "structured format" as a code repository made up of libraries, modules, source files and functions?
Comment · 3 years ago
Goodwill refers to the part of the price that is based on "looking at the current annual income and projecting growth over a few years." It's the value over and above what you would get if you emptied the company bank accounts and sold all its other property in a fire sale. It's a perfectly sensible concept, even if the process of quantifying it by coming up with a price "based on" current income and anticipated growth (or other advantages like eliminating competition) is contestable.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
What about a ransomware, phishing or data breach victim? Cybercrimes are often committed by organised criminals and investigating them seems like the most obvious reason for the DOJ to issue a subpoena to PyPI.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton