It still renders smoothly though and doesn't go above 40C so I guess it could have been worse.
Oh wait, it's because it is too old to have WebGL support so the background crashed and thus consumed no processing power.
Like it or not but I feel like account logins, PII and payment stuff will have to be handled by central big orgs. Ideally, I would like that to be a competent open-source government service. For now it is big companies like Google that can shove its SSO around in accessible manner to other sites.
May I suggest you use reader mode to remove the annoying flashing background? If you can get past the annoying UX of the article, it has interesting stories about serious issues.
> i sent formal breach notifications to security@hackclub.com and gdpr@hackclub.com on july 9th. radio silence. nothing. not even an automated "we've received your email" response.
> when i tried talking to HQ staff informally, the responses were... well, shocking doesn't quite cover it. the first intern told me that since hack club is US-based, they're "not held to GDPR," that if fined "nothing compels us to pay it," and that EU people "void your EU protections" by coming to the US.
What? How did we get from (allegedly) informing them about a security vulnerability to them responding "nothing compels us to pay it"? I feel like the author is not being quite as candid in their account as they should probably be.
If instead they framed it in terms of "hey you guys are sharing stuff you probably didn't mean to" then the reaction would have likely been different
Use reader mode, block Javascript or whatever it takes. Give the author a break. They're a teenager. What kind of websites were you making as a teenager? I'm sure one of those dark background websites with MARQUEEs and BLINKs with glaring contrast colors! So give them a break. Behind the annoying UX is an article about serious and appalling privacy and security issues.
Like read this:
> i raised this with chris, who's a full-time staff member (not a teenager), and he insisted that exposing physical addresses and sensitive info was "just a vuln" not a breach. said he's "never heard the term 'data breach' used that way" and... also relied on chatgpt instead of actual legal advice.
It's just mind boggling that a bonafide company has such appalling privacy and security lapses and they still remain arrogantly indignant about it making bold claims about laws they don't understand, why, because ChatGPT told them so? Cherry on top is they are employing teenagers to answer legal questions! Not kidding! Just read the OP! Unbelievable!
Headline really buries the lede: this is the issue, not some missing ToS boilerplate.
The map is not the territory, the security policy is not the security.
Report them, you say? Many DPC's such as the Irish DPC are very friendly in terms of their lax approach to the regulation, just ask Max Schrems, he's been at this for years. I think the EU and the regulators do not have resources to enforce the law, so whilst there are requirements to protect customer data, nothing bad happens if you don't. Just check the top of HN as I write this [1] "Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs". Will anyone be arrested, charged, fined, or otherwise penalized? Nope, not a chance. I 100% guarantee absolutely nothing will happen as a result of this article. GPT makes it so easy to capture user data these days and people will just willingly hand it over.
The truth is, you should be very careful what data you hand out, always. Use an alias, use privacy tools, always be weary and check if they have a privacy policy, check to see if it works (make a dummy account, do GDPR request, if no reply, be weary).
If they are not serious about privacy, stop, think and act accordingly. While it is a disgrace what these individuals have done, individuals need to take personal responsibility just as in a real world, would you trust a random stranger giving you pills? Hopefully not!
I get it, some people dislike the appearance but c'mon, this is HN. If we can use vi(1) on a 80 column terminal, reading an html page is not an impossible task.
- This person has also used their access to attempt to extort the admins and their Airtable data, demanding a bounty payment for access they were previously given. - In her arguments about the program leads earning higher bounties, they had said that they both did bounties for Coinbase and Google, neither of which being non-profits - Many of her arguments are flawed in other ways.
Theo (yes the ffmpeg guy) also commented on it in a livestream, and I would just point to that:
> This feels really in the weeds of something we are not supposed to see externally. It is a lot of writing for what seems like clueless people doing backend
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DEATH handing out swords to kids as Santa in the Hogfather is a funny joke, not an example to follow.