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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • While I do think it would strengthen the security, anyone that can trick someone into giving them their SSN can also trick that someone into giving them their private key.

    This would be advantegous for everyone, but private keys would still be stolen.

    I’m all for a cryptography embracing government though. A GPG key is far superior to a short number sequence that can be predicted easily.

    Although not great, where I live, at least, we have a way to digitally sign digital documents using public key cryptography.

    One thing is that I believe we will eventually have cryptographic keys assigned to us instead of those insecure SSNs. But who knows when that will become reality.















  • I wouldn’t really defend cloudflare here. Sure, the tier might have been a bit cheap for a big online casino with high traffic. However, cloudflare should have set limits in place or warn the casino beforehand and not just surprise businesses with great amounts of builtup “damage” money if the business was causing their network to “struggle”. The call they made with the CF sales team about the serious issue wasn’t a warning at all. According to the blog, they just asked if the casino considered the enterprise tier. Nothing about their networks struggling is said at all. Additionally their future calls were misleading and just tricks to get the casino to talk with the sales team. I’m not sure how CF’s fooling the casino here can be seen as something reasonable at all.

    They shouldn’t call it unlimited if they can’t handle high amounts of traffic.