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Ultima IX 6 months ago

I’ll die on the hill that the Ultima 7 games are the absolute best RPGs ever made. So beyond their times and hold up incredibly today.

I've been in infosec for the past 14+ years and hiring these types are pretty nuanced and complex. On one hand, you have a person who shows their ethics are questionable at best. Do you want those folks having the proverbial "keys to the kingdom"?

On the other hand - people make mistakes and learn. And these types of folks are decently effective at what they do - although I will say the fact they got caught demonstrates they're not THAT good.

I'd probably pass on this specific person for the latter reasons.

This is my take as well.

You have a service thats installed for one-click operations from Brave customers that want to use their VPN. The VPN service doesn't run in the background post-installation and no tunnels are established.

I see the customer experience reasoning here. Can someone explain the actual risks - I'm not seeing any.

As someone who works in the antibot space for a FAANG, this type of solution can actually be very effective initially. Bad adversaries will adjust their TTP's (Tactics, techniques and procedures) accordingly - I wouldn't be surprised if ATO (account take overs) rise to compensate for paywalling on new accounts.

I really respect the dedication to removing the huge problem of bots in the social space and I feel the ripple effect could be tremendous if a big dent is made.

This is HN, not a general forum. People here who care about privacy should be able to use such devices. So I recommend them.

I think the spirit of respectfully challenging what you're stating is the nuance of privacy versus the entire world.

Even within the HN audience, I don't think it's a stretch to say some individuals would prefer a secure(data enc in transit)-and-available (note: not a complete E2E private against 3 letter agencies) versus perfect privacy.

FWIW, I'm one of those folks that have iOS devices that turned on E2EE for iCloud. I'm attempting a "close as I can get to amazing privacy but also balancing the nuance of life" strategies.

I've ended up on TV (local TV news station), gave a talk at Blackhat and a couple other big public facing presentations for various security orgs. The only two things that sure-fire worked for me in this exact situation: getting older and repetition.

The older I got and the more I forced myself to get up there and do public speaking the easier it got.

That whole "imagine them naked" thing is a hilarious hoax for what its worth.