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To be honest the responses sounded copy and pasted straight from ChatGPT, it seemed like there was fake feigned interest into their non-existent youtube channel.

> Overall simple security design flaws but it's good to see a company that cares to fix them, even if they didn't take security seriously from the start

I don't think that should give anyone a free pass though. It was such a simple flaw that realistically speaking they shouldn't ever be trusted again. If it had been a non-obvious flaw that required going through lots of hoops then fair enough but they straight up had zero authentication. That isn't a 'flaw' you need an external researcher to tell you about.

I personally believe companies should not be praised for responding to such a blatant disregard for quality, standards, privacy and security. No matter where they are from.


Honestly tried it out, I wanted to like it but in its current form I found myself frustrated enough to just end the 'call' and close the app. Been learning Spanish for quite some time now so wasn't put off by the 'it always talks in X language' thing people are talking about.

The thing that put me off was the speech recognition. I am not in a loud environment and I wasn't even talking and it was picking up responses and responding to it before I even opened my mouth. It blazed through the 'preferences' set up itself making up responses. Then when I did get to talk it just simply got my answers wrong. It would often interject too at random during my sentences.


Me too. Complete silence, headphones but recognized random words before I had a chance to say anything.


I recall not too long ago a startup advertising exactly this idea for farms. It was some box with various sensors (and output lines) that you could configure to do a multitude of tasks


To be fair it's only kinda clickbait on HN. On their actual site the thumbnail is very clearly not a real rabbit and is visible before you access the article.


Out of interest how did you get the rights to stream the music? Cool game just curious if itl stick around.

I would definitely like some sort of “decade” option if at all possible so you can stick to films of a certain era. Some of the older ones I had no ability to guess (which is fine, just would like to weed those out for my own fun).

Also as others stated, some made for the movie tracks would be nice!


Check out Photopea, it has a ton of features and is fairly performant in the browser. It also seemingly copies the UI of Photoshop but impressive nonetheless.


Spains banks (I’ve used two so far) simply use your ID number which is used in a lot of places and not considered secret and enforces a 4 digit password.

It’s an absolute joke.


I wondered once about this, but it kind of make sense from the point of view of usability.

Unlike any webservice, you usually have very few attempts to make a successful login before getting locked out, so even if it's four digits, the odds of a successful brute force attack are very low


I suppose so, I just find it funny really that my bank has less password requirements than most (if not all) online services I use


Bank Of America requires to tell them a 2FA code sent over SMS, when SMS literally says:

   <#>BofA: DO NOT share this code. We will NEVER call you or text you for it.
No, it wasn't scam, seen that process physically visiting a branch on agent's display multiple times.


My bank does that for in person visits but you key in the code on a PoS style keypad at their desk


Most banks in Spain require physical presence in the branch for 2fa


You mean to set up a second factor, they require you to go into a branch?


I guess you'd get better results if you knew the font the site uses (which in many cases you could figure it out pretty quickly) or even just override every font with your own.


Certain browser features/apis are only available when in a secure context https://www.digicert.com/blog/https-only-features-in-browser... so I imagine this might be a reason you would want it.

That being said I don't know why you would pay for an application that does this but I guess I'm not the target market.


Yep. A lot of OAuth integrations will refuse to work on HTTP, too. Some have a `localhost` exception to that restriction, but not all.


This long article helpfully forgets to mention, that localhost/loopback addresses are considered secure without https.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure...


Some features have still moved to TLS-only even for localhost. "Considered secure" is somewhat orthogonal to "requires TLS". You can only use HTTP/2 with TLS, for instance, whether or not you are in a "secure context".


Am I missing something? The article doesn’t state that at all. The lab was used for creating covid 19 tests


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