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Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

Tinder API documentation

Note: this was written in April/May 2014 and the API may has definitely changed since. I have nothing to do with Tinder, nor its API, and I do not offer any support for anything you may build on top of this. Proceed with caution

http://rsty.org/

I've sniffed most of the Tinder API to see how it works. You can use this to create bots (etc) very trivially. Some example python bot code is here -> https://gist.github.com/rtt/5a2e0cfa638c938cca59 (horribly quick and dirty, you've been warned!)

Basecamp was under network attack

The attack detailed below has stopped (for the time being) and almost all network access for almost all customers have been restored. We're keeping this post and the timeline intact for posterity. Unless the attack resumes, we'll post a complete postmortem within 48 hours (so before Wednesday, March 26 at 11:00am central time).

Criminals have laid siege to our networks using what's called a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) starting at 8:46 central time, March 24 2014. The goal is to make Basecamp, and the rest of our services, unavailable by flooding the network with bogus requests, so nothing legitimate can come through. This attack was launched together with a blackmail attempt that sought to have us pay to avoid this assault.

Note that this attack targets the network link between our servers and the internet. All the data is safe and sound, but nobody is able to get to it as long as the attack is being successfully executed. This is like a bunch of people

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# Takes a YouTube URI to a playlist (fairly liberal, it's fine as long
	# as the playlist id can be extracted), and prints a list of URIs in a
	# YouTube playlist.
	#
	# Requires youtube-dl 2014.10.24, tested on youtube-dl
	# 2014.11.02.1. Feature subject to change.
	youtube-dl -j --flat-playlist "$1" \| jq -r '.id' \| sed 's_^_https://youtube.com/v/_'

	# My steps for creating a DigitalOcean server to run non-exit Tor node for just $5/mo
	# Screen shots of my setup process: https://plus.google.com/photos/+DrewFustini/albums/6057260188204970945
	# Create Digital Ocean account: https://www.digitalocean.com/
	# Create Droplet on Digital Ocean: select $5/mo, and select Debian 7.0 64-bit
	# This instructions are based on Tor Project: https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-relay-debian.html.en

	afustini@lappy486:~$ ssh [email protected]
	[email protected]'s password:
	You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
	Linux Tor300SoF 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64

	var _log = console.log;

	window.console.log = function(log){
	_log.call(console, log.reverse ? log.reverse() : typeof log === 'string' ? log.split('').reverse().join('') : typeof log === 'number' ? log.toString().split('').reverse().join('') : typeof log === 'boolean' ? !log : log);
	};

	NUMBERS_SET = 'numbers'
	TWILIO_NUMBER = '+12345678900'
	TWILIO_SID = 'account_sid'
	TWILIO_TOKEN = 'auth_token'

	express = require('express')
	http = require('http')
	path = require('path')
	redis = require('redis')
	app = express()

	You appear to be advocating a new:

	[ ] cloud-hosted [ ] locally installable [ ] web-based [ ] browser-based [ ] language-agnostic
	[ ] language-specific IDE. Your IDE will not succeed. Here is why it will not succeed.

	You appear to believe that:
	[ ] Syntax highlighting is what makes programming difficult
	[ ] Garbage collection is free
	[ ] Computers have infinite memory
	[ ] Nobody really needs:

	curl --header 'Authorization: token INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE' \
	--header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3.raw' \
	--remote-name \
	--location https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo/contents/path

	# Example...

	TOKEN="INSERTACCESSTOKENHERE"
	OWNER="BBC-News"
	REPO="responsive-news"

	{
	"manifest_version": 2,
	"name": "Hacker News styles",
	"version": "0.1",
	"content_scripts": [{
	"matches": ["https://news.ycombinator.com/*"],
	"css": ["style.css"]
	}]
	}