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thesmileyone

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October 4, 2012 (13y ago)
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33 year old interested in Performance Marketing.
  1. Ask HN: How do I sign up to FB with a fake name?

    So I left facebook 6 months ago (permadelete) and it was the best thing I did. Unfortunatly I need a FB account to join a few groups that I am members of IRL as well as requiring a FB business account to run FB ads -…

    1 points 1
  2. Ask HN: Has anyone moved to Canada?

    So I am looking at the future of the UK. It looks bleak. So does America and the rest of Europe. Canada (Specifically Toronto) does not. But I am not exactly sure how I would get a visa. I asked this on reddit and got…

    1 points 4
  3. Ask HN: Is Skype safe to use?

    In the business I am in literally everyone wants to use Skype instead of PM's etc. Is Skype currently safe? If not are there any good ideas to secure your work before connecting with someone on Skype? Thanks!

    13 points 11
  4. And so it begins... (secure.38degrees.org.uk)
    1 points 0
  5. The BlueHat Crypto/Exploit Challenge (blogs.technet.com)
    1 points 0
  6. Ask HN: Practical ways of dealing with UK porn/other bans?

    So it seems I need to educate myself with how to get around these forthcoming content bans that will effect me in the UK? I understand I can change my DNS proxy to another countries, such as google, to get past DNS…

    1 points 2
  7. How not to Police the Internet (UK) (medium.com)
    1 points 0
  8. What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue...

    Is not that they are monitoring me. I have nothing to hide. Other than the usual, which is encrypted in utorrent, apparently. What worries me more is, what if they were to perform covert MiTM attacks? They are in the…

    41 points 28
  9. Does the USA own the internet?

    I always thought the internet was not owned by ANYONE, however with the news of the NSA stuff I have been performing tracert's at my end and I notice that EVERYTHING passes through the USA. So if the USA was to shut off…

    1 points 2
  10. See where the Internet lives... (google.com)

    Does this mean Google OWNS the internet?

    4 points 0
  11. A Brief Foray into the wonderful world of Linux..

    So, following on from my previous post where I wanted a flexible GUI Linux install, I installed Ubuntu 12 LTS. Coming from Windows 7 I am both impressed and slightly disappointed...but Linux and especially Ubuntu seems…

    2 points 4
  12. Best OS with GUI for business laptop?

    Recently went and purchased a laptop specifically for two things; all things business, and writing any ramblings/stories etc. I purchased a new Dell, 2.3ghz i3 quad core, 6GB ram, 1TB hard drive (wanted an ssd but was…

    1 points 2