Have not learned about the four stages of human population growth rukd

You’ve basically just excluded ninety per cent of the Internet from being used. And it’s not surprising that this is coming from someone with an account on the lemmynsfw instance.

If everyone followed your logic, you wouldn’t even be posting this because your instance would have been defederated a long time ago to not lose users.

Work culture, especially in the US, is very conservative. The fact that you don’t understand that it’s better to be more conservative here regardless of consensus is astounding. Understand that the NSFW flag is a curation tool. You seem to think it’s a form of censorship. It’s purpose is to deal with the ten per cent on the far end of the spectrum who would take offence. And if your retort is that the majority shouldn’t have to accommodate the minority, that’s just a terminally online opinion that fails to recognise the fragility of real human interaction. It’s analogous to saying that bridge engineers shouldn’t have to accommodate the heaviest ten per cent of vehicles when figuring out what its maximum load should be when accomodating “most” vehicles is enough and that those vehicles should either lighten their load or find an alternate route.

I’m not going to argue with you over this because I don’t believe you have the foundational understanding of why things are what they are.

This is a facetious argument and you know it.

The scenario you described would not be breaking in.

Terms and conditions being agreed to are not relevant for this purpose. An exposed API is one that is welcome to be exploited. If you’re not requiring an API key, you’re essentially saying “This API is free for anyone to use” for security purposes, regardless of what you say in the terms and conditions.

Try showing it off at work. Set it as the wallpaper on your work computer and see how “safe for work” it is then.

Still clearly not safe for work.

Of course it’s stealing. But they didn’t break in.

Hacking = breaking in

Data breach = stealing stuff

For normal users with a sufficient amount of RAM, is there any real reason to even have a swap file or swap partition? Or why shouldn’t they have one and set the swappiness to zero?

Breaking off diplomatic relations is usually a very extreme measure. In the tradition of diplomacy, it is the most serious action a country can take to express its disapproval of another besides declaring war. It might be justified but it won’t be taken because the Chinese government offends extremely easily and would retaliate in kind with trade sanctions and embargoes.

If world leaders actually had the stock to stand up to China, their next move would be to say “One more fuck up and we recognise the Republic of China on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China”.

Daily reminder to check out some local credit unions. They offer the same services as banks and are run as a not-for-profit charity. Most US credit unions are members of the Co-Op ATM network which allows you to use any other credit union’s ATMs for no fee as if they were your own. Some also reimburse out-of-network ATM fees and even pay interest on checking/current accounts. Their fees are usually the same or lower than banks.

Finally, something for the Americans to laugh at Europeans about

Intelligence agents usually enter on diplomatic passports solely so that their country can claim diplomatic immunity to fish them back out.

Well, perhaps not the ones that look uncanny then.

To elaborate more, I think that it’s because if humans have an aversion to other hominids and corpses, we wouldn’t try to waste resources attempting to breed with them.

I’m not talking out of my arse here either. I don’t work in security specifically but I’ve got a CS degree as well and it contradicts my understanding of how those terms are generally used. This is an open API endpoint, equivalent to leaving the garage door open.

But the distinction is usually unimportant. A security hole is a security hole regardless of what you call it.

I’m not someone who works on the practical side of security, but as a computer scientist, I do not agree that it is “hacking”. That contradicts my understanding of “hack” versus other types of exploits, but you are correct that the distinction is generally not that important. A security problem is a security problem regardless what it’s called

This gets posted a lot, but nobody ever seems to post what the thing was.

The answer is probably “other hominids”. Humans (Homo sapiens specifically) co-existed with them for a long time and competed with them over resources.

Edit: and the genetically deformed (with whom it would be beneficial to not breed, at least from an evolutionary standpoint) and corpses or people with disease

It is a vulnerability, but exploiting that vulnerability is not generally considered by security experts to be “hacking” in the usual meaning of that term in academic settings. Using an open or exposed API, even one with a sign that says “don’t abuse me”, is generally not considered hacking.

Please provide a link to whatever source claims this.

I hold a computer science degree and this contradicts the definition of “hack” versus “exploit” used in academic settings.