DonHopkins on Nov 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The NHS's 1.2M employees are trapped in a 'reply-a...
Back in the days of ARPANET mailing lists, there used to be an "educational" mailing list called "please-remove-me", that was for people who asked an entire mailing list to remove them, instead of removing themselves, or sending email to the administrative "-request" address.
So when somebody asked an entire mailing list to remove them, somebody else would add them to the "please-remove-me" mailing list, and they would start getting hundreds of "please remove me" requests from other people, so they could discuss the topic of being removed from mailing lists with people with similar interests, without bothering people on mailing lists whose topics weren't about being removed from mailing lists.
It worked so well that it was a victim of its own success: Eventually the "please-remove-me" mailing list was so popular that it got too big and had to be shut down...
...Then there was Jordan Hubbard's infamous "rwall incident" in 1987:
Well, what they did to Nvidia Tegra devices is either downgrade them to L3, or revoke them and issue a new L1 key for them. OTA updates patched something, but a hardware flaw can't be patched fully with a software update.
However, most people nowadays are simply exploiting phones and tablets with old vulnerable MSM chips, there are a lot more of those to choose from. Usually what Google does now is when someone publicly leaks a compromised device key, they revoke the unique key of that specific device but not the whole model. However, sometimes streaming services (especially Amazon, Netflix and Disney+) may still choose to blacklist an entire vulnerable model and limit it to SD playback.
HN is great. Some IRC channels feel like a nano (pretty small) HN with selected users. There are smart dudes in there talking about tech in general. Since IRC is harder to use/access than a normal website/forum like reddit or HN, it tends to filter in some way. IRC by definition is an open network protocol. Hence there is not a single company or institution behind it. Thus, there are no adds or marketing around it. It is purely word of mouth. Finally, it feels more private because you need to login. Sometimes, people feel more comfortable to write speculations about future in a more private and perishable digital space than a public and persistent one like HN.
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