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


> 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.


This and that!

It's the same as "Twitter clone" with just posting messages with 140 char limit and "build a blog in 15 minutes".

Alerting over a downed website are is sorta like a glacier, there's so much under the surface, if you just see the surface you're missing out.

1. Multiple locations 2. Multiple check intervals 3. SMS/email provider switch on fail 4. Auto recovery of your checkers 5. Multiple providers with a single storage.


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


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.


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/


Thanks, yes an invalid certificate then a paywall / adwall tends to put me off.


Cert wasn't invalid for me, just adbolock-blockers.


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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.

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


"... 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-...


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

"... 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."


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