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joshaidan

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April 5, 2011 (15y ago)
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I am a computer programmer and I've read Pride and Prejudice. I work in the telecommunications industry and program iPhone and Rails apps.
  1. Cell phone conversations being leaked to other callers in North Bay (nugget.ca)
    2 points 0
  2. The Electronic Web: An 80s era CBC documentary on digital privacy [video] (main.mp4.cbc.ca)
    1 points 0
  3. Santa granted Canadian citizenship (cic.gc.ca)
    2 points 0
  4. EHarmony experiencing +24 hour outage after scheduled upgrade (facebook.com)
    1 points 0
  5. Programmers should take the day off today because Oct 31 == Dec 25 (twitter.com)
    2 points 0
  6. Winners of the Royal Canadian Mint's MintChip Challenge (mintchipchallenge.com)
    1 points 0
  7. CBC Ombudsman complaint: using the word hacker to describe criminals [pdf] (cbc.ca)
    1 points 0
  8. Let’s Convince the Media to Stop Stereotyping Hackers as Criminals (joshaidan.tumblr.com)
    4 points 2
  9. Oren Jacob describes how Toy Story 2 was saved from rm -rf * (quora.com)
    2 points 0
  10. Plaxo's servers used to access Google Accounts, and their cryptic response (blog.plaxo.com)
    6 points 1
  11. Why Don’t Phones Let Us Record Calls? (brianjones.ca)
    36 points 38
  12. Facebook to purchase old paper mill on Lake Superior (brianjones.ca)
    1 points 0
  13. Early Sound Recordings From Alexander Graham Bell Recovered, Played Again (npr.org)
    17 points 3
  14. Richard Stallman rebukes University for streaming with Windows Media Player (youtube.com)
    6 points 0
  15. Tricked a Windows virus scammer into revealing details of their call center (soundcloud.com)
    1 points -1
  16. Economic growth is part of the problem, we need sustainability (chroniclejournal.com)
    1 points 0
  17. Ask HN: Could we improve password security by using a public/private key system?

    Could we not improve password security by using a public / private key system, integrated in our web browsers? For example, I give every website I login to a public key. When I login to the website, the website uses…

    1 points 5
  18. Microsoft informs husband he infected wife's computer with virus (brianjones.ca)

    A telephone call I recorded from a scammer pretending to work for Microsoft, who's trying to trick people into install spyware. I pretend to have installed the virus on my wife's computer, and panic.

    2 points 0
  19. Preview of new features in iOS 5: Makes the iPad even more magical (youtube.com)
    11 points 0
  20. Humans are capable of using echo location. (theglobeandmail.com)
    1 points 0
  21. Recording of telephone scammer trying to get me to install spyware on my C64 (brianjones.ca)
    1 points 0